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We all know about Englipedia, right? I mean, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all been here for at least eleven months at this point, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t imagine I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m popping anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s monocle by talking about it. If you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about it until now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6good for you, I guess? Welcome to the cheaters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 table.<\/p>\n
Except is it cheating? I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. I really don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. Certainly, it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be that bad to just look up lesson ideas on there, can it? Just to get the benefit of shared wisdom? Isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t it irresponsible to NOT take a gander at what other people have done when teaching the same grammar points just in case they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re better at this than I am? Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t my students deserve that?<\/p>\n
Yes. Yes, they do. But that is different from taking a worksheet wholesale from the site.<\/p>\n
If you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re like me, you get an uneasy feeling whenever you steal<\/span> use one of their worksheets, but then I get an uneasy feeling when I take a number to wait in line at the bank. I think I just need to adjust to being an adult.<\/p>\n And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not stealing in the most basic sense as whoever first designed the worksheet still has what they made, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just that now I have it too. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s more akin to sharing and people always tell me that that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good. And they put it up in the first place, so clearly they wanted me to have it\u00e2\u20ac\u201c it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like when people leave stuff out on the street for others to take, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how I got like half the stuff I own.<\/p>\n Could one claim it was like stealing in an intellectual property sense? Maybe. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m using someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s creation in a commercial context. I am being paid for deploying someone else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s brainchild. But I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not fluffing my plume with borrowed feathers as no one has said ever. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t claim the worksheets as my own if the teachers ask (they very seldom do). However, I am loathe to reveal their source; I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want them to know that most of my ideas are available online and just how eminently replaceable I really am. If they started reading the texts into one of those apps that make you sound like Prince Charles, I doubt the students would even notice I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m missing.<\/p>\n I think one of the reasons I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m cheating is because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve already prided myself as being creative and thus believe that I should be able to make such things on my own. On the other hand, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also always prided myself as being someone who enjoys playing Pok\u00c3\u00a9mon and using Englipedia worksheets gives me more time to do that of an evening, so to which side of myself should I be true?<\/p>\n Of course, the teachers get a great deal of their material from a book; they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re always using the same source which they didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t write. They go to conferences and swap ideas and their versions of the textbook have the answers written in them. And I highly doubt that they all developed the same rules and catchphrases for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Simon Says\u00e2\u20ac\u009d independently. On top of this, the more established teachers have a ready-made bag of tricks from which to pull a lesson or a fill-in-the-blanks. My mother taught Spanish for forty years and used the same worksheets and classroom materials again and again, year after year only changing if one of the actors she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d cut out of a magazine died. And yet, for some reason, I feel I should be held to a higher standard. Or, perhaps more accurately, I fear I am duty-bound to a higher standard because of the sweetness of my life: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not made to do many of the things that make a teacher\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s life truly awful, surely I should at least make my own worksheets?<\/p>\n Englipedia certainly makes my job easier and my job is already pretty easy and it may elicit a token twinge of guilt in me, but I still use their worksheets all the time. I never really planned to stop: I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not doing anything illegal or even against the description of my job and it saves me time. I mostly wrote this article as a way of assuaging some of the pangs. In this case, as per usual, feeling uneasy is a waste of time and energy\u00e2\u20ac\u201c as my lawyer keeps telling me, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153bad vibes are not admissible in court\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and also \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have an umbrella when you came in.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rory Kelly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We all know about Englipedia, right? I mean, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve all been here for at least eleven months at this point, so I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t imagine I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m popping anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s monocle by talking about it. If you didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know about it until now\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6good for you, I guess? Welcome to the cheaters\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 table. Except is it cheating? 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