Turn it in

Turn It In is a wonderful tool for students and teachers. Before, students could easily get away with plagiarizing and now it makes plagiarizing impossible. During this assignment I learned how to successfully detect the originality in an essay. I did reach a problem in the Turn It In program where, although it was my original work, the program picked it up as being plagiarized. To fix this problem I simply rearranged my sentence or rephrased my words so that they were no longer similar to someone else’s work.

Turn It In can be used a great deal in education. It is very seldom that teachers can detect plagiarism on their own, without assistance from an outside source. This tool will be of great use to me in my future classroom to detect if a student is not completing his or her own assignments. It can also be used to show students how to properly cite work being used in an assignment.

The NETS-T standard number four is met with this tool because the standards states for the teacher to promote and model digital citizenship and responsibility. Advocate, model, and teach safe, legal, and ethical use of digital information and technology, including respect for copyright, intellectual property, and the appropriate documentation of sources.