Just finished reading two blog posts about students cheating on tests--Tony Vincent's Learning In Hand and Will Richardson's Weblogg-ed. I do encourage you to check out both--they are filled with excellent, thoughtful commentary. Tony's includes several student-created YouTube videos on how it's being done. I noticed that most of them have little or nothing to do with handheld technologies, often an argument against implementing them in our schools.
As long as we continue to assess students' knowledge with traditional test methods and continue to hold grades up as "trophies" (which they aren't) and continue to use them to label our students' ability to achieve and understand (which they don't), students will continue to find new ways to cheat...and it's NOT about the technology!!
I'll ask the same question that Will Richardson did in his blog:
"When are we going to stop giving students tests they can cheat on?"
Please feel free to comment and let's get that conversation going here in NE Wisconsin!
(Will's post of that questions garnered 62 of them...worth reading and reflecting on.)
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