Turnitin: A Web-based Solution for Collaborative Writing in the 21st Century

Discover how educators are using Turnitin to help students develop both content knowledge and 21st century skills.

As the role of technology in education moves to the forefront of educational and political debate, so does discussion of the skills students will need in the 21st century. Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making – the so-called 21st century skills – are held up as essential in preparing students for the challenges they will face in their future schooling, jobs and lives. At the same time, teachers face growing accountability for their students’ academic achievement in content areas as measured by standardized tests. The discussion centers around classroom time: Does sufficient time exist for successful teaching and learning of both required content and 21st century skills? Some see this
as a dilemma – that teaching one will take away time from the other. This dilemma, while often seated in K-12 education, touches all levels of learning.

When and how technology works in our classrooms, and increasingly beyond our classrooms, has been a lively topic among educators and researchers for years. Now, with heightened interest in educational innovation, the time may be right to look at technology in a new way: as glue to bring together subject content and information-age skills. This report examines the skills-content dilemma and introduces a new technology to help solve it. The new technology is Turnitin, a web-based service that supports collaborative writing. Turnitin offers secondary and post-secondary instructors a practical, time-efficient way to teach content while promoting 21st century skills.

 

Turnitin offers a unified solution for teaching content knowledge through process-oriented writing in a 21st century online environment.

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