Marvel

I have had to teach students what plagiarism is this year. I have had a few students show direct copy and pasting from websites and had to teach what bad it is to do that. Some really have no idea what they are doing wrong. I think that is a major problem. I think Marvel can come to the rescue for reliable material and the teachable moment of how to gather information and put it into their own words. The district should keep encouraging students to use Marvel by keeping it on the home pages for schools. With all the information that is false on the internet, students can gather direct links to reliable information and keep the research moving to prepare them for high school.
The good news about wikipedia is that people can no longer post whatever on sites without logging in. I think it would be good for students to see that wikipedia is not the first site to pop u when searching. It can also help students search for reliable sites with learning some new tools for research.