While incidences of cheating may not actually be more numerous than in times past, the means by which students do it are. Indeed, with technology offering so many new ways to cheat, teachers have had to become much more savvy in discerning this activity. For example, despite the prohibition against the use of cell phones in most schools, we know that students still bring them to school. But I recently read about at least one student who used his cell to cheat by taking photos of answer sheets inadvertently left on the teacher’s desk. Other students have used the internet (once again via cell phone) to get answers to test questions. And still others text message answers to friends.
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