Growing up with technology at our fingertips affects many parts of our lives. In recent years, technology and the availability has especially affected our education system. Technology has brought change through many good and bad avenues. Plagiarism is one of the biggest negative aspects of technology in schools. Today more than ever before, plagiarism is easy to do and the means to commit plagiarism are readily available. There are numerous websites that allow someone to buy essays or papers to turn in to your high school class for an assignment, simply by paying money. Two of these are www.customwritings.com and thepaperexperts.com. Other students may choose to just copy and paste things that they find off of Google. It is so easy in this world to do this because Everything is available online.
This makes it difficult to be a teacher and to have one more thing on your plate to combat against in the battle of educating students. Most students don’t really want to learn, and if there is an easy way out, you can be sure that most will take it. Why would they want to spend time putting in extra work writing a paper when they could just copy paste something and have a better end product? The only real reason most wouldn’t is because they might get caught and have consequences.
One website that teachers have been using to fight against plagiarism is turnitin.com. This website checks the papers against a large database of other papers to see how similar they are, which will reveal with surprising accuracy if a student has copied someone else’s work. Turnitin’s website says this: “Turnitin’s proprietary software then compares the paper’s text to a vast database of 12+ billion pages of digital content (including archived internet content that is no longer available on the live web) as well as over 110 million papers in the student paper archive, and 80,000+ professional, academic and commercial journals and publications.”
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