The document discusses the importance of promoting academic honesty in education, especially in the digital age, by addressing common issues faced by educators and students regarding citations and referencing. It emphasizes practical activities for teaching proper citation methods and the significance of honesty in academic work, while also highlighting common mistakes made by students and educators. The document encourages early student involvement and professional development for teachers to foster a culture of honesty rather than punishment for academic dishonesty.

1. Academic Honesty
in the Digital Age
Mick Purcell

2. todaysmeet.com/taisi
slideshare.net/mickpurcell

3. Objectives:
● Learn about AH issues facing educators and schools
● Distinguish between citations, references, Bibliography,
Works Cited, etc.
● Identify common student mistakes
● Conversation about Wikipedia
● Gain skills in common applications, such as Microsoft Word
or Google Docs
● Identify common teacher mistakes

4. The most important learning:
● Promote academic honesty instead of punishing academic
dishonesty -- be Gung-Ho!
● Begin young with student involvement
● Teach teachers about issues in the Digital Age

5. Activities
1. Learn how to use Headings, Contents, the Bibliography Database and
referencing tools in Microsoft Word
2. Learn how to write a citation directly onto a jpeg using a web-based
photo-editor
3. Learn how to correct common errors when using MLA to write in-text
citations
4. Learn how to use the CC search engine and similar tools to find
resources in the public domain
5. Learn how to embed an image directly into your presentation without
downloading or fussing with image files
We may also discuss:
1. Setting up a Google Accounts for Education account for your school
2. Setting up a diigo or Pocket account for your school

6. “We investigate hundreds of cases of
academic dishonesty each year, and in
the majority of cases the problem is that
the student was not intending to cheat,
but that they were never taught properly
in terms of ATL skills. For example, the
student was poorly taught how to cite,
how to write a bibliography, how to
reference a work of art, etc.”
Malcolm Nicolson,
Head of Development for the IBDP

7. “You cannot teach what you do not know”
proverb
Wikimedia Commons
File:Knowledage-Reid-Highsmith.jpeg
retrieved 25 Aug, 2013
Artist is Robert Lewis Reid (1862–1929)
Photographed 2007 by Carol Highsmith

8. Common Mistakes by Students
● cut and paste
● overdependence on the internet
● not citing unusual sources, such as lecture notes
● not understanding “collusion”
● thinking about “not getting caught”
● doing Bibliography last minute
● saying mentally “I will cite that later”
● not using the Bibliography Database and other Word
Processor tools
● thinking a URL is a reference
● inflating their Bibliographies, or not proofreading them

9. Basic Principles
● Honesty
● Consistency
● Using the right tools
The purpose of referencing is
two-fold: Firstly, you should
acknowledge your sources
because it is the right thing to
do – that’s academic honesty.
Secondly, you should let your
reader know where to go for
more information.

10. HONESTY
By far the most important
principle in referencing is
HONESTY. Do NOT:
● Plagiarize
● Cut and paste from the
internet
● Steal other people’s ideas
● Try to deceive the
examiner
● An example: bloated
bibliographies
CREDIT: Chris Pirillo
http://blaugh.lockergnome.
com/cartoons/061013_internet_citing1.gif
retrieved August 26, 2013

11. The Sydney Opera House is
famous for not allowing
photographers to use its
image. I downloaded this
photo from a Picasa site
which seems to belong to
someone named Zakia
Karmal. I assume she is the
girl in the photograph, but
maybe not -- maybe she is
the photographer, or the
person who owns the
camera, or the person who
owns the boat, or the person
who hired the boat and the
photographer. Copyright law
is complicated. As long as
she is not using the
photograph for “commercial
purposes,” SOH won’t sue
her , but if her photograph
gets a million hits, and she
becomes famous . . . .

12. Writer Sheila Skillman and her Family
scskillman.com

15. Activity 1:
In your groups of six:
Take the handout, a “term paper” by a student
named Orlov.
For each of the 15 arrows, determine whether the
student is correct, or incorrect, and give a reason.
Enter your decision and your reason into the
Google Doc:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1c-
TYw9DMv0mBj9Vj0v7GpyjDCIlA_9o4JoX08084Sx8/
viewform

16. Common Mistakes by Teachers, Librarians and
Administrators
● focus on punishing dishonesty instead of
promoting honesty
● assuming children understand right and wrong
● oversimplifying the complexity of citing in the
digital age
● the same mistakes student make, especially
thinking about “not getting caught”
● not using the tools properly
● not enough professional development in this area
● overdependence on turnitin
● misreading turnitin

17. Scott Adams: Dilbert
www.dilbert.com

18. Adams, Scott. Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel. New York: Harper,
2002. Print.

19. Referencing, and all that
● Citations
● References
● Footnotes
● Bibliography
● Works cited

20. This comes from the IB
Extended Essay Guide
● Reference: the detailed and
exact information about
your source, found in the
Bibliography
● Citation: a shorthand
pointer to the reference,
usually in-text, or
“parenthetical”
● Footnote: extra information
about a point that will be
interesting to some readers

22. Bibliography or Works Cited?
Works Cited, unless

23. Wikipedia

24. Footnotes or Endnotes?
a matter of style

25. There are others: CSE, AMA, Turabian, etc.
CONSISTENCY
At Edubridge, we use MLA through Grade 10

26. FAQ from students
● How do I reference a book I read online, such
as something from Google Books?
● How do I cite a letter from inside a book?
● Why did you mark me wrong when I wrote
“Internet” as my source, or, “American, c.f.”?
● Should my in-text citation be at the end of the
sentence or in the middle?
● How do I cite you?

27. Recommended Online Resources
Hacker and Fister
Purdue OWL
CREDIT: http://www.peanuts.com