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Personal technologies have been real game-changers for schoolwork. Information has never been easier to access and computers provide powerful tools for presentation, collaboration, and creativity. Many believe that the mobile phone also has potential as a learning tool. But an unintended consequence of these versatile technologies is that hey've made cheating easier.
Although cheating has been going on for years, cell phones and the Internet offer new opportunities for unethical behavior.
What Is Digital Cheating?
Some students use mobile phones to store notes. Some text friends about answers during quizzes or tests, while others take pictures of test questions -- which can be forwarded to students who haven’t yet taken the test. Students with smartphones can even search the Internet for answers. Some students don’t even realize they’re taking shortcuts when they copy and paste material they find online and present it as their own work ... although those who use the Internet to download entire papers or reports surely know it’s not ethical.
Ramifications of Cheating
What would happen if our doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers, and other professionals cheated their way though school?
Cheating Goes Hi-Tech
Personal technologies have been real game-changers for schoolwork.
Information has never been easier to access and computers provide powerful tools for presentation, collaboration, and creativity.
Many believe that the mobile phone also has potential as a learning tool.
But an unintended consequence of these versatile technologies is that they’ve made cheating easier.
Although cheating has been going on for years, cell phones and the Internet offer new opportunities for unethical behavior.
Why it Matters…
The decisions students make today will shape the digital culture of tomorrow.
We want our students to grow up knowing right from wrong -- no matter where they are.
We need to be sure that they know personal responsibility is as real in cyberspace as it is in the classroom.
Digital life -- particularly the Internet and mobile phones -- operates in new ways. Anything they post or create can be seen by a vast invisible audience.
Their work can be copied, pasted, altered, and sent to untold numbers of people. And they can copy and paste others’ work in a split second.
Because kids have unfiltered access to information, the temptation to use other people’s work and call it their own can be profound. And since so much of this world happens distantly, plagiarizing or cheating can seem like a victimless crime.
Kids think they can get away with it because they believe their teachers, parents, and the people whose work they’ve cribbed won’t discover what they’ve done.
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