MediaSnackers Are CopyCats
Students are copyng from the web.
(GBR) We live in an information-saturated age and students are simply ‘sutting and pasting’ their way through their studies. This is what Prof Brown, pro vice-chancellor for assessment, learning and teaching at Leeds Metropolitan, thinks. And she goes on:
They are post-modern, eclectic, Google-generationists, Wikipediasts, who don’t necessarily recognise the concepts of authorships/ownerships.
Academia faces a huge challenge to engage their students as knowledge becomes as easy as typing a few words into a search engine.
