Catching Digital Cheaters and how they use the ipod to cheat.


Are iPod-banning schools cheating our kids? - Mike Elgan, Computerworld
The Associated Press published an article last week about high schools increasingly banning iPods because some kids use them to cheat. The article, reprinted in USA Today and hundreds of other newspapers, reported one example where a school “recently enacted a ban on digital media players after school officials realized some students were downloading formulas and other material onto the players.” I don’t want to second-guess the individual decisions of specific teachers and school principals. But the ban does raise questions, the most interesting of which is: Should iPods or other handheld gadgets instead be “required” during tests?