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A Teaching and Learning Tool

A Teaching and Learning Tool. WCI Presentation to Harry Niezen January 2010. WCI Story. WCI Facts and Figures. Cost $2850.00 US (June 2010 - June 2011). Number of teachers using: 32. Number of students using: 1159. Who uses Turnitin?. 10 area DSB’s, including… York

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A Teaching and Learning Tool

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  1. A Teaching and Learning Tool WCI Presentation to Harry Niezen January 2010

  2. WCI Story

  3. WCI Facts and Figures Cost $2850.00 US (June 2010 - June 2011) Number of teachers using: 32 Number of students using: 1159

  4. Who uses Turnitin? • 10 area DSB’s, including… • York • Thames Valley • Individual schools in Toronto DSB • also… • University of Waterloo • Wilfrid Laurier University

  5. Benefits “Turnitin is not just for plagiarism…it’s to make students better writers.” (Greg Arnberg, MS IS, Instructor of Information Systems, Hawaii Pacific University) "I love how it is used as a teaching tool rather than simply as a way to catch cheating students. My students understand that the responsibility is on them to avoid problems rather than for me to catch them.” (a Two Year College Writing Instructor)

  6. Benefits • Manages the entire writing process • Improved quality of evaluation using GradeQuick feature • Consistent grading language • Standardized editing Marks • Paperless grading • Online peer reviewing • Originality checking helps students become proactive rather than reactive • Immediate teacher response available to students

  7. Benefits • Students learn to distinguish between deliberate and incidental plagiarism • Assists students in storing and organizing their work. • Facilitates more effective remedial work by Special Education, Student Success • Transfers student work from one school to another • Keeps a writing history for each student • Does not preclude the need for teaching what plagiarism is and how to avoid it

  8. Compelling Links to: WRDSB System Goals WCI School Success Plan School Effectiveness Framework Digital Citizenship Character Education 21st Century Learner

  9. About the Product

  10. Issues to Consider… What will it cost? Will teachers use it? Will students like it?

  11. What will it cost? See package included with quote from Turnitin

  12. Will teachers use it? • Over 30 teachers at WCI • use it already, after only 9 months of availability.

  13. Will students like it? • See results of our survey • “WCI Student Comments on Turnitin”

  14. Discussion

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