Promoting Integrity at the Classroom Level:
Design Re-education Campaigns
Too often, students and teachers "don't realize that the same rules that cover print, recordings, and videotape also apply to computer software and Internet sites." (Hardy, 1998). As a result, they will copy images and text from the Internet and then use them illegally.
Students can also be involved in unintentional academic dishonesty because they do not understand the rules of documentation or collaboration. They also see other people doing things wrong, don't understand the behavior is wrong, and then repeat the behavior.
We need to realize that our students are often speaking the truth when they tell us that they thought that something was ethical because that is what they did in high school, another class, and so forth. Much of the education we do with students is actually re-education. We must help them unlearn incorrect information before they learn the correct material.
