Camphone Cheating
I meant to post this yesterday, but got sidetracked. It seems that cameraphones are not just dangerous in corporate and gym environments. A tricky little student was caught using his cell phone to snap photos of an exam and send it along to a friend.
CNN reports:
School officials banned cellular telephone use after a student was caught using a camera phone to photograph an exam and trying to send it to a friend.
"All we are doing is stepping up the enforcement level, because of the student's flagrant violations," Principal Joe Rice said Monday.
Cheating by using camera phones and text messaging has become a nationwide concern.
Last year, six University of Maryland students admitted cheating on an accounting exam by using their phones to send information to one another via text messaging.
The Salinas Union High School District has had a ban on "electronic signaling devices" since April 2003 but has let individual schools decide how to enforce it.
It's been years since I was in a high school, forget attending one. It's hard to understand how much students can "get away" with these days -- now teachers have to be technologists on top of educators.