Using Technology To Cheat
...to Laura?
Adjusting a seat or tilting a head to be able to look at a class mate paper is as prehistoric as are dinosaurs. Cheating has occurred since the erection of the first schoolhouse. However, it has since been taken to a new level over the last decade or so. That can be accredited in part to the new high tech alternatives that have emerged within our societies.
No more answers written on small pieces of papers with words so tiny that only a microscope can see them or the palms of ones hands fully covered in ink. These two methods are known as crib sheets. These methods of cheating have since been replaced with students taking a picture of answers of the paper in whole and forwarding it to any other destination of his or her choice via the highly respected and appreciated cell phone.
Cheaters are everywhere now a day in sports (steroids), corporate boardrooms (individuals), and in government. This is why there is no big secret that cheating is so common among students. With the new technology of computers it has become so easy to cheat that even those students who might otherwise toil with honesty. With all the surveys out there it is no wonder that more than 50% of students have cheated just in their college career. It could be said that as technology advances the vicious circle of cheating will continue. As students get improve their knowledge of new technology this in turn will make it harder for school officials to catch cheaters. Because students (cheaters) are able to go on without being caught they will continue to cheat and advance the technology. It is a shame that some students now feel it is Stone Age to use paper and pencil to take notes. Go figure and some students feel it to be very confusing to utilize this new technology and struggle to stay with the times.
Technology today is a very big part of a student’s life and unlike...
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