In my morning issue of the Opening Bell, it has an article about cheating with button cameras and pens that scan, both being used by tech savvy students to cheat on tests. 

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Technology increasingly used to cheat.

The Los Angeles Times (3/31, Rivera) reports, “A 2006 national survey found that more than 60 percent of high school students said they had cheated on a test, and the number of self-admitted cheaters has steadily risen over the years,” with students utilizing “an array of high-tech gadgetry” and sharing cheating methods via Internet sources like YouTube. “More recent innovations are button cameras, which have a wireless connection to a laptop computer that can then capture stolen test items, and pens capable of scanning a test and sending a video signal to a remote laptop to save the images.” While some schools have begun adopting policies such as the employment of “test-security firms that use computer software” to “identif[y] plagiarized material,” others seek to help students “with character-building curricula and ethics workshops.” Michael Josephson, of the Josephson Institute of Ethics, added, “It’s a mistake to talk about school cheating without referring to society at large. … We need to…ask what is our attitude toward cheating, because kids are going to absorb that attitude.”

 It seems to me that some students of today’s society are up with technology enough to try to cheat.  Whatever happed to writing on one’s hand….