@VeroniqueB99

If it's an act of interesting creation, worth mentioning widely, and especially in a school, I hope permission was sought. Rather than citing an anonymous student, I would hope that person was offered the opportunity to be named.

Perhaps they didn't want to be named, which is fine, but then just saying so would be good. That gives the anonymous person, when they see it spreading around, the ability to disagree about being asked or about that being their answer.

Not mentioning authorship makes it more deniable, like maybe it was an oversight, which is why we as a community should request authorship information even if the answer is "this space intentionally left blank" for any of a variety of reasons.

Too much meme stuff doesn't credit content creators, and that will only get worse with AI, whose stock in trade is uncredited plagiarism. Teachers may not be able to stop the march of AI, but they can still teach and to demonstrate good manners and ethical behavior.

#teachers #teaching #memes #education #citations #plagiarism #authorship #writing #WritingCommunity #ethics

h/t @dabeaz