Jared Noble Dr. Rocha 08-29-2021 ISM-3011-170 The video clip provided is about the importance of academic integrity. The video starts by asking participants who attended the 2008 annual academic integrity conference the following question: What is so important about academic integrity? Some people's responses according to the video included ideals such as self respect, being ethical, and acting with integrity; just to name a few. The video clip then goes on to a participant who says, "I don't think you can have genuine learning without academic integrity." This rings so true to me in that academic integrity isn't just something you should do to be fair, honest and respectful to others; but instead to do these things in order to give yourself the best opportunity to gain a real learning experience worth going through. Academic integrity is something that is imperative to all students who want to really learn effectively and use their knowledge to apply it to real life scenarios. Another key point the video clip touches on is the idea that academic integrity allows for institutions and academic institutions to have a sense of community. The idea that you can go and use any of your classmates or teachers as resources with having full confidence that they will treat you honestly, fair, and respect. The video then builds of of itself by showing a quote from a teacher on a white board which reads, "It [academic integrity] sets a pattern for life-long integrity in all areas of life. Academic integrity, according to the video, goes hand-in-hand with trust. If you are in an academy or institution that has academic integrity, you will trust that everyone who leaves the university has done their work honestly and therefore can become trust members of a much larger society. One of the three most critical issues with this clip is the broad-spectrum that academic integrity can be defined as. The video clip interviewed teachers and students of all kinds and asked them the same question. Albeit they all had good, well thought out responses, but academic integrity was defined so many different ways which can create confusion for some. This is due to the lack of standardization of the term across universities which can be good or bad, but in this case, bad. The solution to the problem created by the video is to state a clear definition either at the beginning or end of there video. This would put the responses to the question as their own personal interpretation of the definition rather than creating their own on the spot. The second issue with this video is the length and choppiness of the responses. The video was just under 8 minutes long in what could have been easily a 5 minute video. This is an issue because it could be easy to lose the viewers attention when trying to convey a core idea. When you trim out the excess "fat" from the video it can be much easier to follow and understand what they were trying to get across. The third issue with the video is the amount of jumping around it does when trying to explain what academic integrity is. There are points brought up and then moved on from in the video only to be randomly brought back up agin later in the video with no reasoning. One of there 3 most relevant lessons learned from the video is how important it is to have academic integrity in order to be a functioning part of society. The term academic integrity can be split into its two core words, academic, and integrity. When the video talks about having an internal moral of integrity it can then carry on in to integrity in the classroom, and then in the real world where it matters most. When you have academic integrity it can be a seamless transition from an academy/university to a long-lasting career. In turn, the term academic really has no effect on the definition of academic integrity, but rather an appropriate timeline in which you need to develop a sense of integrity, which is in the classroom first. The second relevant lesson learned from the video clip is how important it is to have academic integrity in order to have a real sense of community, trust and respect. In terms of community, when you are a small part of a much larger whole and you have all been taught integrity and how to implement it, it can create a real sense of community knowing that you are all going to treat each other with the integrity taught to you in previous years. Creating this sense of community creates the residual effects of having a real sense of trust and respect for one another. The third lesson learned from the video clip is that I can implement this in my college experience now. By using the definitions that participants gave I can have even more academic integrity than I previously had. By implementing the definitions given by the participants I can prepare myself for a successful college career and a long-lasting career after my time at St. Thomas University is over.
