Blog #7 issue 1

Technology makes students plagiarize. As we all know, technology like computer and internet were developed very well in the recent few decades. In the old days, students don’t have much convenient resources like we do, they always get information by reading books or asking others. Which means when they want to plagiarism they don’t have so much to resources and it is not easy for them to find what they need in books. However, nowadays students are able to surf the internet to get any info they want. What’s more, if they have a laptop or smartphone they can even gather info anywhere anytime. That’s the technology changes, they changed the way we learn the way we live; it has an impact change of our life. In the article “Technology makes plagiarism too easy”, the author Forrest Mims III discussed how technology makes people easy to plagiarize others’ intellectual property. He used the word “unprecedented” to illustrate the technology changes and he reports that with the help of internet some students just “cut and paste” the info they get to finish their schoolwork. Same thing happened in that Harvard Cheating scandal, Lauerman reported “electronic communication”, believed by school, made the plagiarism possible. Harris, cited by Lauerman, analyzed that with students’ internet age grow they gradually change the way they look at intellectual property. That means, not like the older generation, students don’t respect intellectual property much. When the internet plagiarism became more and more frequent, some people stop making original works. As a result,things get worse and worse.