Hacker education and media and information literacy: new alliances between university students and plagiarism on the Internet

Abstract

To face the problem of plagiarism on the Internet, the research objective is defined: activate the hacker attitude through media and information literacy (AMI) skills to establish alliances with the copy and paste technique in the comprehension and creation process. of contents on the 2030 Agenda, in the students of the Master's Degree in Teachers during the 2021-2022 academic year. The non-probabilistic sample, made up of 60 students. The action research methodology, quasi-experimental, qualitative approach, with an exploratory purpose on the hacker attitude in the classroom and confirmatory when measuring learning. In the content analysis of the initial survey and the final projects, 55% of the students show activism for sustainable development, 75% have managed to process information from the Internet and 60% have faced plagiarism from the information sources consulted. . The alliances between the hacker attitude, the AMI skills and the copy and paste technique have contributed to train students to become aware of the emotions that must be derived in the construction of critical thinking, to convert the cognitive process of understanding into new sources of knowledge. satisfaction that drive the hacker initiative.