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Cheating and technology

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Kids cheat on tests. It’s a fact of life at colleges and schools around the world. And not just on tests – the internet has made it so easy for students to Google, cut-and-paste their way through papers and reports. Sheesh, when I was a kid, if I wanted to plagarize, I had to at least go through the trouble of retyping from a book.
Well, as technology changes, cheater use it to cheat more effectively. But, teachers use it to catch those cheaters more effectively, too.

There are now high-tech classrooms designed not just to impart information, but to make sure that information (AKA test answers) isn’t passed along in the wrong way.

Check out this article in the New York Times…see any tips your school could adopt?