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Gene Brian Bisson
AVID / Social Sciences
Carpinteria High School
4810 Foothill Road
Carpinteria, CA 93013
Phone: (805) 684-4107 ext. 243 Fax: (805) 566-5952
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Schools Banning iPods To Beat Cheaters
By Rebecca Boone
April 27, 2007
Using iPods to cheat is hardly a new phenomenon, but sometimes it takes awhile for teachers and administrators, who come from an older generation, to catch on to the various ways the technology can be used. Some students use iPod-compatible voice recorders to record test answers in advance and them play them back during the tests.
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Remember that there is no tolerance for cheating in any of my classes.
Some examples of cheating are:
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Copying another student's work
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Allowing your work to be copied
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use of cell phones during class (especially texting)
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interacting during tests or quizzes
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etc.
For more information on plagiarism, click on the link above.
Banning baseball caps during tests was obvious -- students were writing the answers under the brim. Then, schools started banning cell phones, realizing students could text message the answers to each other. Now, schools across the country are targeting digital media players as a potential cheating device.
Devices including iPods and Zunes can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind an ear and into a shirt collar to give them away, school officials say.
"It doesn't take long to get out of the loop with teenagers," said Mountain View High School Principal Aaron Maybon. "They come up with new and creative ways to cheat pretty fast."
Mountain View recently enacted a ban on digital media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players.
"A teacher overheard a couple of kids talking about it," said Maybon.
Shana Kemp, spokeswoman for the National Association of Secondary School Principals, said she does not have hard statistics on the phenomenon but said it is not unusual for schools to ban digital media players.
http://www.newsfactor.com/news//story.xhtml?story_id=021002DSUQRL
A Cheating Crisis in America's Schools
A Crisis in America's Schools — How It’s Done and Why It’s Happening
ABC News
April 29 - Angelo Angelis, a professor at Hunter College in New York City, was recently grading some student papers on the story of Paul Revere when he noticed something strange.
A certain passage kept appearing in his students' work, he said.
It went like this, Angelis told Primetime's Charles Gibson: "Paul Revere would never have said, 'The British are coming, the British are coming,' he was in fact himself British, he would have said something like, 'the Red Coats are coming.' "
Angelis typed the words into Google, and found the passage on one Web site by a fifth-grade class. Half a dozen of his college students had copied their work from a bunch of elementary school kids, he thought.
The Web site was very well done, Angelis said. For fifth graders, he would give them an "A." But his college students deserved an "F".
Lifting papers off the Internet is one of the newer trends in plagiarism — and technology is giving students even more ways to cheat nowadays.
For complete story click on the URL below:
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/print?id=132376
Please read your syllabus. There is ZERO tolerance for cheating in all of my classes.
Mr. Bisson
Last updated 14 October 2007
Some more interesting articles regarding the consequences of plagiarism.
Three final words:
Don't do it!!