Key take aways:
His TIW was about plagiarism and he referred to the case from 2001 at Piper high school where a teacher failed 28 students for plagiarism based on what she found on Turnitin.com. The sad thing about this is they were punished for a crime of plagiarism but they didn't learn anything, they didn't learn anything from getting in trouble or when they were stealing someone else's stuff, however know one pointed this out. they did the same assignment for years, an assignment which asks students to be experts, when they are not experts.
"Attractive nuance" - something that is easy to take or very tempting. Plagiarism is a attractive nuance.
I like that he referred to Turnitin.com is "gotcha" software - we can catch and fail, but writing won't get better.
He asked if improved writing instruction can solve this issue?
www = whatever, whenever, wherever - it is available to our students, we need to teach them how to use it.
Can you really separate creativity and research?
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