Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources

Workshop on Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources

This blog is a response to the reflective blog task assigned by Dr.Dilip Barad sir about workshop held on 19th November, 2019 about Quality and Authenticity of Web Resources. 

In this workshop we have discussed SEER (SOURCE EDUCATIONAL EVALUATION RUBRIC) in detail.

At Present, students have probably changed the meaning of research. Even so, research seems to have become a research. To complete their tasks and perform well in front of their classmates and teacher as if students seems to have put aside the moral and thinking capacity too. Students search for best things and do not hesitate slightest to give their name only for they worked on searching. Why?

Is the world at the fingerprints going to shake even the soles of the feet?

At the same time, it is equally important that the information that the students receives from the Internet should be used only as a reference, because collecting, integrating different information is not a research and thus searching is a steal of the ideas of the students. The mind has to be tricked because the students do not even realize that what they are doing is actually doing something wrong, unless the students themselves have a knack for doing so. No any problem can be solved because the acceptance of the problem as a prerequisite to the solution of any problem.

Not only that, it has become difficult for students to access information that is appropriate and useful in academic work, When students search the internet for the purpose of finding information about a single word, the pages that open in the hundreds of pages make it difficult for students to finally trust more information and use that information in their own study by giving more credence to what information is.

This is why Turnitin has released important information to us with particular emphasis on personal search issues.

Now question arises that What is Turnitin?

Turnitin is the global leader in evaluating and improving students writing. The company’s cloud-based service for originality checking, online grading and peer review saves instructors time and provides rich feedback to students. One of the most widely distributed educational applications in the world, Turnitin is used more than 10,000 institutions in 126 countries to manage the submissions, tracking and evaluation of student paper online. Turnitin also offers iThenticate, a plagiarism detection service for commercial markets and Writecheck, a suite formative tools for writers. Turnitin is backed by Warburg Pincus and is headquartered in Oakland, Calif., with an international office in Newcastle, UK.

Evaluation of three sites:

This image shows criteria for evaluation of site and on the basis of this chart one can have better idea while taking source from any cite and it also helps in self peer evaluation for students.

Three evaluations:

Plagiarism:

Now, let’s talk about  plagiarism. 

We can say that technology is smarter than humans and there is no doubt about it. But students have gone 100% in trying to deceive machine. Instead of developing new ideas and creativity, students discover the alternatives immediately via internet.

Thus, it is very important for children to be educated in the right direction for a better and brighter future and Turnitin has worked hard for this in bringing awareness.