Students and Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a huge problem with students these days. Most of the time the student doesn't actually know that they are plagiarizing though. Students require to learn how to properly document their sources within their papers or presentations in order for them to be safe from plagiarism. Often times a student will take bits of pieces of websites and not cite the work because they think that they only took a small amount of information and that they don't need to cite the work. If the professor or teacher has any doubt on whether or not the student didn't do a part of their paper on their own, will go into Google and just search for the line that is bothering them. This will then take the professor to the website that the student used word for word. I'm not saying that all students are truthful, there are some students that go and copy and paste a whole entire essay just because they were too lazy to do the work their-selves. At many Universities, the college will dis enroll you from the college sometimes just from plagiarizing. Plagiarism is a serious offense, and all students should remember to modify whatever they are using as a source.

Sharing Information on the Web

In this modern age people, especially digital natives need to monitor their activity on the internet and what they do online. There have been incidents where a person will share a small amount of information with a company online and agree to a statement that will in turn allow that company to share the person's information with other companies related to the person's interests based on their activity online. People don't understand that whatever they do online can be tracked and seen at a later time. 

Parents have been trying to monitor their children’s activity on the internet, which is somewhat a good thing because children need to know the dangers of internet stalkers. There are different programs or websites out there that parents use to find out what their children are doing. When the kids begin to grow older and want more privacy they always find a way around the tracking site. The best method of keeping your children from exposing too much information on the internet or not visiting sites that are inappropriate is to show them the risks that they are taking. To actually properly inform your children about the real dangers of the internet and all of the identity theft that goes on in this day of age would truly help keep kids and teenagers safe.

With this being said, the parents themselves require becoming more technically savvy so they can instruct their children the correct way to keep important information off the internet. I know that my mom doesn’t have any real computer skills other than filling out an excel sheet or writing an e-mail to an old pen pal, but she has taught me and my brothers to use common sense on the internet and to make sure to read everything before clicking the continue button and to ask ourselves if we would want our future boss or girlfriends parents to see what we are posting on facebook or any social network of the sort.

  Basically the big problem with digital natives not knowing about the dangers of sharing information online isn’t just their own fault, but their parents and teachers who should be the ones teaching them proper procedures for their safety.

Identities in the modern world

My inquiry area is Identity, Privacy, and Safety. I picked these topics just because of the new modern age that people are growing up in, Safety is essential for everyone's lives who spend a large amount of time on the web. I also find it very interesting of how people are able to create alternate personalities on-line. The last topic about privacy is something I was interested in, because I have always believed that you are able to hide what you do on the internet, but in reality there is always a way of finding out what people do on the internet. Sometimes after a week has passed it is still possible to go in and find out what the person was doing on the internet. The identity topic reminds me of the song by Brad Paisley, that talks about how this overweight guy creates a new identity on-line and has a completely different life than what is reality. All of these topics really stick out to me as interesting.