{"id":188,"date":"2008-03-22T08:41:07","date_gmt":"2008-03-22T13:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ivyrun.com\/wordpress\/?p=188"},"modified":"2008-03-22T08:41:07","modified_gmt":"2008-03-22T13:41:07","slug":"it-is-cheating-but-not-worth-expulsion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/?p=188","title":{"rendered":"It Is Cheating But Not Worth Expulsion"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the follow up<\/a> to the story of the student who faced expulsion for running a Facebook study group for his chemistry class.\u00a0 He was not expelled but does have to take a course in academic honesty.\u00a0 In addition, he’ll get a zero for the homework, which counts as 10% of the grade.<\/p>\n

This sounds like a triumph for digital natives over digital immigrants.\u00a0 But, unlike when I made the first post, now I’m not so sure what I think.\u00a0 I talked to some of the teachers I was working with this week, and they pointed out that unlike a face to face study group that usually has 5 to 10 members, this group had 146 members.\u00a0 And, the follow up article makes a crucial point: “The\u00a0professor had asked that students perform their work independently.”<\/p>\n

That sentence hit me hard because I am always arguing that the piece where the immigrants can have an influence on students is in the ethics department.\u00a0 There is certainly no way that we could argue that working with a group of students in Facebook could be considered doing your work independently.\u00a0 And, if it was an unstated assumption, then I could back them up.\u00a0 But, in this case, the professor stated that he expected independent work. Doesn’t he have a right to punish students who violate that stated expectation?<\/p>\n

I suppose we could argue about the expectation itself.\u00a0 We live in a networked world in which the traditional view of a solitary student studying seem outdated.\u00a0 We live in a world in which students will be working collaboratively to solve problems.\u00a0 But, we also live in a world in which, now and then, you are expected to work alone.\u00a0 We live in a world in which we are expected to do the right thing even when no one is watching.\u00a0 In this case, considering the prof’s expectations, the right thing to do seems to be that you work alone.<\/p>\n

I think the most frustrating part of this for me is that we are hearing everything second hand.\u00a0 The first article did not mention the fact that the prof expected them to work alone.\u00a0 And, that one sentence doesn’t give enough information: work alone on projects? work alone on homework?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the follow up to the story of the student who faced expulsion for running a Facebook study group for his chemistry class.\u00a0 He was not expelled but does have to take a course in academic honesty.\u00a0 In addition, he’ll get a zero for the homework, which counts as 10% of the grade. This sounds … Continue reading It Is Cheating But Not Worth Expulsion<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[48,2,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-21st-century-skills","category-education","category-technology"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4X3L0-32","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ivyrun.com\/inanotherplace\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}