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Oregon To Let Students Use Spell Check on State Exams

Posted by samzenpus on from the is-there-a-proofreader-in-the-house? dept.

Starting in 2011, the Oregon Department of Education will let students spell check their work before submitting state exams. From the article: "The move is supposed to help the assessments focus less on typos and more on their writing skills. 'We are not letting a student's keyboarding skills get in the way of being able to judge their writing ability,' said state Superintendent Susan Castillo. 'As we're using technology to improve what we're doing with assessments as a nation, we believe that spell check will be one of those tools.'"

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  1. Re:Now I feel old by hierofalcon · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Calculators were forbidden in high school chemistry till we could show the teacher that we could use a slide rule properly. Then we could use calculators. If I remember correctly, this was the first class where calculators were allowed / suggested at all.

  2. Re:Get off my lawn... by nospam007 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    http://www.math.umn.edu/~rusin018/1271_Fall_2006/extra_1.pdf

    "...Nine times seven, thought Shuman with deep satisfaction, is sixty-three, and I don't need
    a computer to tell me so. The computer is in my own head.

    And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave him. "