this article depicts the tough life child has as they go through the ranks of elementary, jr high, and high school. it gives sympathy for the cheating student that they are overburdened and under so much pressure from their parents to receive high grades that they go to extreme lengths to satisfy them. tha article teaches parents instead of asking what grade they got on a quiz ask them if they learned anything from that class.
I dont understand how
1) you can cheat on homework!? isnt it practice for a exam or test..so why cant a student use the internet or parents to assist them to answer the question.
and
2) Students cant bring the computer to a test in most classes which makes cheating harder for them...
so as long as test scores are up do we really care.
this is the first time i have seen this story on any news source.
- social media is used in this example because kids can go on Facebook or twitter and message the answers to a test or upload a pic of a future test for their friends to have access too. the perceived impact is that we are turning into a generation of users who doesn't require itself to memorize facts because one can easily Google any piece of information and have the answer within seconds.
- the story is pretty much focused on one source -parenting.com- and the story does not vary in facts from one source to another.
- i have not seen the story on the news but it is conveyed as a new observational study from parenting.com and might not have a follow up story but i will see how it develops.
- for this particular story there is no move afoot towards citizen journalism. kids are too young to post video blogs about school life.
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