Is it true that technology helping students to cheat?

Question

today many students do not even know the multiplication table, because there is a beautiful calculator to multiplicate for them. there are also many others items that pretty much do the same thing. so .. is it technology helping students to cheat

Answer 1

Yes, and I'll take "street smarts" over "book smarts" anyday, as a future employee.

We are all taught the same c**p, from the same textbooks, from the same authors, so we really aren't teaching ourselves to learn, just memorize c**p.

Those that know how to find out that c**p, are smarter, more clever, and just betted suited to survive this world. They are blessed with logic, good analytical skills, and resourcing abilities.

:D

Answer 2

Uh. NO!  Technology helps us!  I know the multiplication table, going into 6th grade!  Just because there is a calculator  doesn't mean kids don't do their own work.  What about LA?  Can you really cheat on reading comprehension?

Answer 3

I think that technology is making life easier and more interesting but it divides you from human characteristics

Answer 4

YES! i admit it, that technology makes my brain lazy and prevents me from figuring out things with my brain.

You can find answers for everything online. Its a shame, i think.

Answer 5

Yes, I still haven't gotten over students being able to use graphing calculators or regular calculators. I almost fell out as a parent when I saw my son doing homework with one with the teacher's permission.

Forget about calculators!

Recently in the state of Florida, students were banned from bringing gadgets (which ease their ways into school) during standardized testing weeks. Cellphones, for example were being used to text message answers across the room. The phone's camera was also being used to take images of the test.

Answer 6

yes, it makes me lazy If I want to know something I just go to google...I used to have go get something called a BOOK at a library and look it up.

Answer 7

from the laymen's point of view what you say may look okey. But it is not actually so.

a calculator may be useful instead of a multiplication table at the starting level only.

Earlier days before the invent of calculators multiplication itself was the most higher level in mathematics. But today can you say that a machine used it textile should be barred for the good old hand weaving machine/

A technology on the other hand boosts the logical and rational objective mind in the youngsters and makes them realise to do things creatively.  It acutually doesnot give fish but teach you to fish so you are never dependent on anybody.

Answer 8

Yes technology does help students cheat, they can send answer to test questions to each other via text messeging.

Answer 9

Definitely YES! The so called Copy & Paste, where they can find an entire essay done for them (Plagiarism), if they are assigned a reading, for example a novel, they go to sparknotes or any other web page, and there you have it, summaries of all kinds of novels, plays and stories; they can also use technology during exams by simply text messaging or if it's a computer lab, they can send little messages from one computer to another, even if there's no internet connection. Many students have lost interest in visiting libraries because they have practically everything available online. Impressive but quite frightening. And as teachers we have to use this technology in a positive way, and USE IT. It's a good resource for students but also for teachers. Even teachers cheat, in the sense, for example, that they can find examples of any topic, entire planning lessons, educational techniques, everything online.

Answer 10

OOOOOHHHhhhhhh ya! As an assistant teacher I grade papers a lot, and boy do they in every subject. Look at some of the questions asked on this site, students are asking directly for someone else to do the work for them, especially in sciences, physics and math. In English whole blocks on copied and pasted material with NO citation being used, this also happens in history and other social sciences. We had a student down load a map and insisted that he drew it himself until I pointed out the copyright and makers mark in the corner (junior). Technology is teaching them to take the easy way out. What many of them are learning in school is NOT how to learn, but how to circumnavigate the system to get the grades. I hope a college prof gets into this because I know that many college freshmen spend their first year re-learning what that already should know. Even ACT and SAT classes teach them how to optimize their scores with test taking techniques, not giving them the knowledge to actually pass the test.