Cheating

Wow cheating... big issue

I remember when we used to put crib notes in pens, write upside down on out cap brims, and use morse code while tapping our pencils. Yeah we did all sorts of things that would be called old school today. Today, technology almost scares me, students can take an images of a test, pass it to the local brainiac who will text to all his friend a crib sheet. the other one is the I-pods, someone makes a pod cast of the answers and the kids listen to it before a class. My personal favorite still has to be the one where the kids set up a hi-resolution spy cam on the white board and watched the teacher grade the test and simple wrote down all the correct answers, texted the answers to the jocks at $5 a pop and to the in crowd for $10 a pop. I'm not sure wheather to nail the kid for cheating or congraulate him for finding a business niche and exploiting it. still it worries me

I know that the old school methods of no caps, clear desks and the like don't always work. I know that some teachers have more then one version of the test printed out and and some space students out, if they have the room. Me personally I would make my class a dead zone as far as cell phones, blackberries, i-phones and psp's on a testing day . I would also use slightly different variations of the test for each class. I would also make testing a limited option, since I would rather see projects and portfolios for some parts of the covered materials.