Internet contributes to increased

According to a British government adviser, if only technology technical solutions are applied, it is impossible to prevent the situation that today's children use the Internet to 'cheat' in learning.

University of Nottingham Trent professor Jean Underwood said that we still need to rely on families and teachers to find that stealing ideas or copying in student essays is not a good thing.

The British government has proposed Professor Underwood to provide technical advice on how to detect the use of the Internet for the purpose of 'cheating' in learning.

The new move by the British government could be considered the first reaction after Qualifications & Curriculum Authority released a report saying that using the Internet to download pre-written essays is uncontrollable.

Search the Internet

Professor Underwood - an expert in the field of studying the effects of new technologies on teaching and learning - thinks that repetitive questions should be reduced and more questions should be calculated. More creativity will contribute to reducing the use of the Internet to search for and copy students' ideas or essays.

She also added that she has identified the necessary goals in the study of Internet use to 'cheat' in this study and she wants to find solutions to ensure that learning materials The set of courses must be reasonable, appropriate and secure. The rule rules need to be made clearer.

'We object to all websites that offer to sell essays to students.'

And the parents of the students also need to know that it is not advisable to help their children to study or tell them what to do in their essays because this will limit children in studying effective research skills - an essential skill in later life.

' I personally don't see anything wrong if my parents help their children do an effective search on the Internet for their study. But downloading essays from the Internet to help children is contrary to regulations . '

Teachers also need to avoid making unambiguous guidelines as well as providing a model or list of what is needed in the student's essay as this is what will lead to the situation. Copy essays on the Internet.

So teachers should give clear guidelines, Underwood said. But having to consider each line in the student's essay to see if copying fraud here would be a burden for teachers.

Technical solution

Underwood says technology will contribute to improving this problem, but this problem cannot be overcome overnight. According to her, there are currently a number of software to help the school make sure the essays are students' or copy somewhere.

' Sometimes it's just a job simply by typing a phrase into Google. If the phrase is copied, the result will be immediately available on Google. There are already such software and schools can use such as software of Joint Information Systems Committee . '

The Edexcel and the Council for Examination for Quality Quality (JCQ) said they are working with Plagiarism Advisory Service to produce copy detection software.

According to a JCQ spokesperson, such software will help limit the use or use of other people's work or research.

Professor Underwood said some software has good detection capabilities, but there are still some students who find a way to bypass them. 'So we need to think carefully about the level of education and technology level.'

Is it too early to address this issue in Vietnam?

Referring to this issue in Vietnam at this time is probably not too early or too late. We have really seen how the Internet has had an impact in our lives today. Real life has made great changes since the Internet developed strongly in our country.

The Internet is seen as a great resource for everyone to use, so we will also face this problem not only in the future but we are also afraid that in the present we have even if we have not. must write to many essays, no method of learning as in Western countries.

Perhaps this is just an old form of 'cheating' in learning hidden under a new technology cover.