Cheating

== = **Cheating** =

[|U.S. News and World Report]

Miners, Z. (2010, February 22). One third of teens use cellphones to cheat in school. Message posted to __http:www.//usnews.com/blogs/on-education.//__ (2009, June 23).

In a recent study, one third of teens have admitted to cheating on a test by using their cell phone. They are storing information in their phone, and also texting friends or classmates for answers, while taking the test. 75 percent of parents surveyed, admitted that this goes on at their school, but only three percent of those parents said their child has done this. This article states that parents and teachers should work together to find other ways as to how students are cheating, and to educate students about the consequences of cheating.

[|Are your students cheating?] // Fleming, G. (2010). //Cheating with technology. //Retrieved from [|http://www.homeworktips.about.com/od/cheating/a/echeating.htm]// Educators are concerned that students are becoming more tech savvy then they are, and are using technology to cheat on assignments or tests. Students have been able to save work in the memory of computers, calculators, and cell phones and pass the information to each other. In my opinion, if a student turns in an assignment where the finished product seems out of the ordinary, I would begin to investigate and see where the child found his information.

How to Cheat

Bramucci, R. (2003). How to cheat: techniques used by cheaters.// Retrieved from []

Do schools allow students to carry portable electronic devices such as Ipods, Palm Pilots, calculators, cell phones, digital cameras to class as long as they are turned off? Schools may want to reconsider permitting these toys in their classrooms, because students are becoming more cleaver each day and are using these devices to cheat. Some students have been caught listening to their Ipod or Walkman during a test, which was a pre-recorded message of their study notes!

Cheating Then vs. Now Pytel, B. (2007). //How to cheat in schools.// Retrieved from []

This article published by Barbara Pytel compares cheating by the baby boomers to today’s students. Today’s students have been found in various areas of the school text messaging each other answers to tests, instant messaging and using their Ipods to help them on tests. A recent technology tool called Zune is becoming a new favorite way of cheating. Students can download formulas, vocabulary definitions, and study guide answers. The day of the test, they send the wire up their sleeve, and listen to their “music” aka answers!

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 * [|Computers, The Internet, and Cheating Among Secondary School Students: Some Implications for Educators] **