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=== Clark, Kim. " [|Professors Use Technology to Fight Student Cheating] ." //U.S. News and World Report// 3 Oct. 2008. Web. 17 Oct. 2010. ===

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Several new software companies are giving instructors even more firepower to fight cheating. Turnitin.com, SafeAssign, and a few other new companies have built up databases of millions of school papers, books, articles, and Web pages that they compare against homework. Millions of students around the world now turn in their homework electronically to the companies so that the programs can highlight parts that match other sources. Teachers sign on to the companies' sites to look at the results and decide how much similarity is too much.

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Instructors can now turn to new software to catch cheaters. Companies such as Turnitin.com, SafeAssign, and a few others have built up databases of millions of school papers, books, articles, and Web pages that they compare against homework. Students turn in their homework electronically so that the programs can highlight parts that match other sources. Teachers using the software then decide how much similarity is too much.

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The software isn't perfect, of course. A group of Virginia high schoolers is suing Turnitin.com for allegedly taking their papers for its own profit without compensating them.

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The programs have problems, of course. A group of high school students from Virginia is suing Turnitin.com for allegedly using their writing for its own profit without paying them.

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Bauerlein, Mark. "A Survival Skill." //New York Times// 17 Aug. 2010. Web. 17 Oct. 2010.

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For them, Digital Age learning is about information-sharing. A teacher assigns a paper and they Google keywords, pull paragraphs from sites, add commentary (fudging their words and others’), then submit the result. It’s the product that counts, not the way it was produced. On that model, though, knowledge isn't absorbed and interpreted. It is retrieved and passed along- -- so speedily that students forget it an hour later. 1. Write a paraphrase. 2. Write a summary. 3. Quote. Respond to this source, either agreeing or disagreeing with the author.

Students who just go through the motions of research, patching together information from various websites without really thinking about it, won't learn much from the process. As Mark Bauerlein writes, "On that model . . . knowledge isn't absorbed and interpreted. It is retrieved and passed along--so speedily that students forget it an hour later."

Mark Bauerlein claims that "Digital Age learning is about information sharing" rather than about real learning. But I think he does not really understand research in the Digital Age.