FRIT 7234 - Information Fluency & Inquiry Learning

Helena Wallace
June 27 2017

Lesson 1: Plagiarism and copyright. Using someone

else’s work
Standards
Modern Languages Level I standards:
MLI.CCC5 - The students identify situations and resources in which target language
skills and cultural knowledge may be applied beyond the classroom setting. The students:
A. Identify examples of the target language and the culture(s) studied that are evident in
and through media, entertainment, and technology.
B. Identify resources, such as individuals and organizations accessible through the
community or the Internet, that provide basic cultural information about the culture(s)
studied.

ISTE Standards for Students

Digital Citizen:
2c - Students demonstrate an understanding of and respect for the rights and obligations
of using and sharing intellectual property.
Creative Communicator:
6c- Students communicate complex ideas clearly and effectively by creating or using a
variety of digital objects such as visualizations, models or simulations.

Digital Information Fluency

3 - Using Information Ethically – How will I Ethically Use The Information?
3.A Learners ethically use digital information

Principles of Inquiry-Based Learning

 2. Deep Understanding
 4. Appropriate Use of Technology
 5. Student Success
 7. Performances of Understanding
 8. Ethical Citizenship

Lesson duration
1 class – 90 minutes

Essential Question
 What is plagiarism?
 What are copyrights?
 How do I use the information that I retrieve from the Internet in ethical ways?

Objectives
Students will:
 Go through the resources of a Thinglink page to understand the concepts of
plagiarism and copyright.
 Create a visual display of these concepts
 Write a small definition of the concept of Plagiarism

Lesson plan
1. Students will be given a link to a Thinglink page about plagiarism and copyrights
https://www.thinglink.com/scene/936812145251713027. They need to go through
all the resources and complete one small quiz at the end.
2. Encourage students to take notes as they go through the resources because they will
use their notes to create a “word cloud” of these concepts with the main words and
ideas. For that visual display they will use Tagul.
3. All students have a classroom page at Weebly that they have created, so they will
post their visual display in their page under the tab “Plagiarism.”

Assessment
This informal assessment is based on the visual display that the students will create.
Because this is a personal expression the teacher will only evaluate this project for
completion. It is the student’s responsibility to learn the material because in lesson 3, they
will have to cite all the sources that they used.

Material
 Classroom set of Chromebooks (one per student)
 Notebook for notes
 URL link to Thinglink
 URL to Tagul (word cloud program)

Resources:
 https://www.thinglink.com/scene/936812145251713027
 http://www.loc.gov/teachers/professionaldevelopment/selfdirected/copyright/inde
x.html
 https://www.commonsensemedia.org/videos/copyright-and-fair-use-animation
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngKGGoqFKTI
 http://www.uh.edu/honors/human-situation/writing-
curriculum/Plagiarism.quiz.htm
 http://www.infosecawareness.in/infosec-concept/internet-ethics
 https://creativecommons.org/
 https://wordart.com/