Using Technology To Cheat

Abstract

Technology is growing at an exponential rate; this presents many challenges and advantages to online and campus students alike. The potential and ability to cheat is greatly increased. In the days before this "technology boom" answers were being written on hands, arms, and anything else that was capable of being marked on. Now cheating is more than easy. With mp3 players, camera phones and PDA's cheating is literally just a click away! Team A will show how technology has increased by showing the various different ways to cheat, what students think about cheating, and what teachers are doing to prevent it.

Using Technology to cheat

For as long as there has been some kind of testing process for validating intellect or capability, there have been techniques for cheating the system. In recent decades, students found it all too easy to write cheat notes on hands, arms, legs, hats and books. In those years however, the internet wasn't available so world-wide communications did not lend themselves to aid would-be cheaters.

Technology has progressed and so has the modern student. Backpacks are now filled with Personal Digital Assistants, MP3 Players, Cell phones and laptops instead of notebooks and #2 pencils. The ease at which students can now wirelessly download electronic information from the internet has created an entire generation of students whose goal is not only to pass the class, but to pass the class with as little effort as possible.

Recent studies show that even though cheating has been around among students since the dawning of organized schooling, the in...

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...ves, so will the techniques used by both parties to counter each other. Both sides will win and lose the battles over and over. The inevitable question is "At what cost?"

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