[Year 12 SofDev] Students copying and pasting in learning tasks

[Laurie Savage]

Hi,

 

Does anyone have a good strategy to prevent students just copying and
pasting code (or typing mindlessly!) when they are learning the basics of a
language? I've lost count of the number of times I've opened a kid's web
page they've coded in a text editor to be confronted with "Your Name" and
"Write a few lines about yourself, using the ul and ol tags sensibly" neatly
set out as <h1> and <p> in neat little divs exactly mimicking mine!

 

Laurie Savage

ICT Teacher | Student Assessment and Reporting Coordinator  |Pascoe Vale
Girls College

Lake Ave, Pascoe Vale | 03 9306 2544 | savage.john.l at edumail.vic.gov.au

 


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