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ooh! Smart!
ReplyDeleteI am guilty of two of the things you addressed in your blog. First, I have not been the greatest role model when it come to acknowledging sources and avoiding plagiarism. I have on occasion admitted to my students that my lesson plans came from Ms. D. or Ms. O'Keefe. I have even admitted to finding and using lesson plans left on the copy machine in the teachers' workroom (Somehow, they deduce that those must have come from Mr. Biel). Most often, I knowingly, but without giving thought to it, just proceed without any such acknowledgement. Can you imagine how many times during the course of the day I would have to repeat, "According to..."? I guess I have to work on that.
ReplyDeleteThis whole idea and argument about there being basically no original thoughts is quite intriguing to me. I guess as far as that goes, I kinda' think that I have original thoughts, but what tempers that thought is the idea that someone somewhere in this vast universe has had the same thought, the same idea, perhaps not as sophisticated, perhaps not verbatim, perhaps not in my language, but so close that it would be hard to prove complete originality.
That only decribes the extent of my thoughts. Inventions, medical breakthroughs, and scientific discoveries, another story. But even then, I think it would just be mindboggling to discover that the first person to articulate the idea was not the first person to think it. You mean you never thought of burning yourself with hot coffee and suing McDonalds before it actually happened? That was not an original idea!