Read this article: http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Americas/2009/March/Schools-Attempt-to-Redefine-the-iPod-War.html
(For some reason, I don't have a hyperlink option..)
However, this article was found from the NCTE blog and is about how some classrooms are allowing students to have Ipods in study halls and break periods. I didn't realize that most school implement rules against having them as a prevention of theft and cheating! This issue of cheating is something we haven't talked about in our education classes yet!
How as a teacher do you prevent this from happening? I think back to my high school years and I remember students would cheat ALL the time (I cannot emphasize enough)!! Teachers were so oblivious about this too. I remember this one time, I actually wrote an annoymous letter to my teacher telling him that half of the class would always cheat on vocabulary tests. After I sent it, he had his eyes fixed on us like we were a steak dinner! Does it come to this--where we have to watch our students the entire period? Do we distribute different tests? Do we trust them? Do we test hard? I guess the answer lies in the way you handle classroom management, but in my experience of witnessing all the cheaters while in high school, I'm afraid that we cannot escape this problem.
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It is definitely a problem, and from my high school years, I have the same recollections of students cheating ALL the time! I wonder how we would prevent it as well! It will be interesting to be the teacher and have to handle this cheating situation!
ReplyDeleteI agree with you about cheating! It happened constantly in my classes in high school. I am interested in learning how we should prevent this. I kind of hope that cheating is something I would notice happening in my classes!
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