September 10, 2004
Camera Phones Boost Cheating
Now even the WSJ is writing about students cheating with their camera phones!
"A small but growing number of students are using camera phones to cheat, according to students and educators across the country. The techniques vary: Camera phones can be used to create high-tech cheat sheets, letting students call up photos of key notes they took back in the dorm. A student also could surreptitiously send a photo of his answers to a friend sitting in the same classroom during an exam."
May I suggest this colmnist and other writers who are spreading these stories, take a picture of a page and see how useful (legible) this would be in an exam situation - not to mention how obvious it would be to fiddle with your phone's to get to the right picture in the menu.
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