Thursday, June 18, 2009

Teen cheating morphs with new tech, poll shows | Wireless - CNET News

Teen cheating morphs with new tech, poll shows | Wireless - CNET News: "'Cell phones and the Internet have been a real game-changer for education and have opened up many avenues for collaboration, creation, and communication,' said James Steyer, CEO and founder of Common Sense Media. 'But as this poll shows, the unintended consequence of these versatile technologies is that they've made cheating easier.'"

Maybe it is time to change our expectations about testing students in offline mode. Maybe it should be ok for students to use communications devices to help them with tests because they would do that in the real world. How accurate are offline tests at measuring real-world effective knowledge?

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