Techonolgy and Preventing Plagiarism

Plagiarism is a major problem for History teachers. If you are a history teacher you may be familiar with programs and websites that check your papers for incorrect citing and copying-and-pasting. Personally, I have experience with Turnitin.


Turnitin is allows teachers to check students ability to cite and teach the correct way to cite. This also makes it a positive teaching technology tool other than catching a cheating student. I think in the future I will most certainly use Turnitin or some other paper checker; I do, after all remember the cheating culture surrounding high school. Wikipedia always said it better than I could anyway.