What do you do when too many students are USING Wikipedia to write their term papers - throw out the term paper and make them write Wikipedia articles! Freaking brilliant.
This is exactly the type of thinking we have to promote! If people are cheating on their term papers - take the resource out of the equation. You cannot plagiarize from Wikipedia if the assignment is to update Wikipedia.
I’m sending her an email right now - brilliant!
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Digital Incubator « Tom Altman’s Wedia Blog // November 1, 2007 at 6:58 am
[...] cropping of web sites promoting “Education 2.0″. On Tuesday I posted an article about Professor Martha Groom of the University of Washington-Bothell. Because of the rise in Wikipedia sourced term papers - Professor Groom ditch the term papers and [...]
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