Yet another way students use tech toys to cheat
Heads up: Students have come up with another sneaky way to cheat on tests. Thanks to weknowmemes.com, students now have step-by-step instructions on how to use the iPod nano to cheat on tests. The post...
View ArticleIs technology making a big problem worse?
Maybe schools should bring back the old-fashioned honor code. Reason: 65% of students say that classmates cheat during school, based on a new Online-Education.net report. Students’ primary methods of...
View ArticleStudents who cheat: Top 7 ways they plagiarize
Tech tools make plagiarizing easier than ever. Here’s how students cheat: Turnitin, a site dedicated to preventing plagiarism, conducted “The Plagiarism Spectrum,” a study that revealed the most common...
View ArticleCheating scandal: More than 50 students involved
Disgrace rocked Stuyvesant High School – one of the most distinguished public high schools in the country – when more than 50 students were rumored to be involved in a widespread cheating scandal. An...
View ArticleHow students are cheating with social media
The Internet has expanded students’ cheating possibilities beyond just glancing at each other’s papers. A 10th-grader from Long Beach took a photo of the geometry section of a state-wide test and...
View ArticleGuess who’s cheating now!
Yet another cheating scandal has surfaced — and you won’t believe who’s in on it. Over a 15-year-period, many teachers in three southern states have been cheating on their Praxis exams, the tests that...
View ArticleHarvard’s email scandal continues
The dean of Harvard University, Evelynn M. Hammonds, has agreed to step down. Three months ago, university administrators at Harvard came under fire after they admitted they’d given the OK for secret...
View ArticleStudy reveals impact of tech tools on student writing
How do tech tools affect students’ writing? That’s what the Pew Research Center wanted to find out. For the most part, educators agree that having technology in the classroom is a good thing. Having...
View ArticleAnswering the call for technology: 4 success stories
As educational technology has evolved, students’ needs have shifted. Here’s how four schools have stepped up to the plate: Between 2003 and 2012 students found different types of problems with Internet...
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Teachers on technology: What’s working in classrooms
In recent years, teachers have learned to incorporate technology into their lesson plans. Here’s what they said about the experience. In “The Impact of Digital Tools on Student Writing and How Writing...
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