This morning I read a great post by Alejandro. He has an amazing vocabulary as a fifthe grader. He posted some tips for writing, and my favorite one was not exaggerating anything. He said:
•Don’t exaggerate the truth. If you are writing a report don’t include things that you don’t know are true. However, if you look it up and get information you can add it to your post. Then the facts will be authentic. - Alejandro
This is important because exaggerating is the same as lying to me, and unless it is fiction, lying is extremely wrong.
Alejandro is learning a very important lesson at a very young age. There are many high school students and adults who don't get that idea. When I work with students on PowerPoint projects, I often see them just copy and paste with no thought to whose hard work they are using with no credit as if it were their own idea. That really is stealing and they could be held liable for that. As we move through this information age, it is very important that we teach children even younger than 5th grade about information they find on the internet. How might you as an elementary teacher teach that copying anyone else's work is wrong?
Mrs. Tincher
Posted by: tincher | November 30, 2005 at 04:48 AM