Survivors Session 2: January 5th, 2012

Topic: Plagiarism using ICT (Information and communication Technologies) and The internet
Mizan was the presenter and Sema was the facilitator. Mizan brought a text related to the subject from The Social Science Magazine 2007/1. Three Levels of Text Protocol has been used. George Duvoisin was our guest.
We, as teachers, assign students to choose a project topic and expect them to search and present it in an efficient way. The common complaint was that the students google it and copy paste the information they find in an ordinary way.

Mazal: Students should be encouraged to have projects that need creativity and student based contribution. Plus, student interest is essential.
Pınar: Reference section should be more detailed.
Özer: Expecting creativity from the students is quite imaginary considering the fact that most of the information is under a click on the internet accessing so easily and copying it in a second. Thus, it does not contribute anything to their knowledge. There are even websites which provide ready projects.
Sevda: The process of preparing a project should be fun and interesting, so the student mustn’t focus on the result or on the grade.
Sırma: A student should be aware of how to start searching, where to find the necessary information and what is expected from them. Thus, they should start doing projects at early ages. Even the teachers should be trained for information literacy.
Sema: We have been using a project diary with the student having at least 4 meetings. The student has the chance to be orientated and correct their mistakes or fulfill the criteria. It really works well.
Conclusion
· Project diary is a good way to lead the students.
· Students should have more lessons of reading and comprehension at early ages.
· More work should be done and encouraged to improve the creativity of the students.