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Text-a-friend: the high-tech approach to cheating
A very interesting article on student cheating, from uh, the horse's mouth, published in a school paper by the students themselves of Montgomery Blair High in Silver Spring, Maryland. The article gives first account stories of student who have actually cheated during exams, unbeknownst to their clueless teachers. "Teachers' ignorance of text-message cheating makes it even more tempting for students: In an informal Silver Chips poll of 19 teachers from different departments on Jan. 3 and Jan. 4, only two were aware that students use text-messaging to cheat. None have caught any students in the act. Rachel, a student, feels that teachers are too inexperienced with technology to realize students would use it to their advantage. "They're not expecting [cheating] to be that high-tech. When they were in school, they didn't have cell phones. That's never going to cross their mind," she says. Steven, a junior, says that teachers won't catch text-message cheaters since cell phones are so small. "The teachers can't pay attention to it. It looks like a PDA so when it beeps, I just say my PDA went off." Steven says the only way teachers will catch on is if they learn the technology. "They need to get into technology so they can text-message each other," he says. That way, he says, teachers will understand the technology and be better able to detect text-message cheating." Related articles: -- Honor code to target high-tech cheating -- New Cell Phone Technology to Block Exam Cheating -- Exam scandal offers shades Orwell's fear -- Education Ministry goes after cheaters -- A Struggle of 18 Days with 280,000 Text Messages -- 1,625 More Suspected of Exam Cheating -- South Korean Students Burned for SMS Cheating -- Answers Relayed From Other Organizations -- Cheats stir jamming debate -- Seoul Education Office Took Precautions Against Cheating -- Students held for (Text Message) exam scam |
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