Education is not about teaching students. It is about students learning.
When I ask my undergraduate students to turn in a paper, it is always a rehashed Wikipedia content or a Google article.
Some circles might call that as plagiarism. Some would say that it is not the right way to go and it should stop.
But what if we accept that there is no way we can ever stop this practice and we should look at the situation differently?
Like, what if instead of asking them to write and to submit a paper, which is more often than not a re-hashed one, we ask them that from now on the requirement will be to write a Wikepedia article or post their work in youtube.com and let the experts all over the world collaborate and do their magic :)
What would a Filipino undergraduate student do if he is put in a position to write an article and knowing that 10 million people will be reading his Wikipedia article or watching his youtube video?
Will he do anything differently? What will he do differently? How differently will it be done? What questions will he ask? What will he learn about himself?
Hmmm, interesting :)
"... why think like mere men?"
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