Turnitin

Social, Ethical, and Legal Issues

Turnitin is an online tool that teachers can use to check a student’s work for plagiarisms. Usually, teacher have the link for Turnitin posted on the Blackboard where all the student has to do it is fill out the title of their document and a few questions and submit it; Turnitin does all the rest. This process does not take long at all, and the student is can see if their paper gets a green light. Turnitin gives the teacher specific details about what sentences or groups of words that is similar to another source. The teacher has the option of setting the percent of which it will allow a student to pass with. 

For this assignment, my class and I were told to copy and paste from a few articles and submit it in Turnitin to give us example of just how it works. On one document that we were to submit, we had to copy and paste directly from some articles the instructor gave and another document we had to write an essay in our own words. The first came back with an 87% and the other with 11%. I was able to view the document that I wrote to see what it flagged as plagiarizes, and it was when I used a group of words that I referred to when I was referring to article, but I still pass because I did not exceed the percentage limit. 

 The NETS-T standard:

 "Promoting and Modeling Digital Citizenship and Responsibility. Teachers understand local and global societal issues and responsibilities in an evolving digital culture and exhibit legal and ethical behavior in their professional practices. Teachers advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology including respect for copyright, individual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources."

This the second paper that I submitted: