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New Smartwatches Allow Students To Cheat On Exams
HughPickens.com writes: The Independent reports that smartwatches that allow students to cheat on exams are being openly sold on Amazon. An advert for one such watch, called a "New 2016 Student 8GB cheating watch," is offered on Amazon for $51.68. "This watch is specifically designed for cheating on exams with a special programmed software. It is perfect for covertly viewing exam notes directly on your wrist, by storing text and pictures in the 8GB memory storage. It supports various file formats, such as: TXT, MP3, JPG, GIF, WAV, WMV, AVI, etc. It has an emergency button, so when you press it — the watch's screen display changes from text to a regular clock, and blocks all other buttons." The watch has garnered good reviews. "this is amazing. it helps me cheat on my test and it is smart and i never got caught," writes one reviewer. Joe Sidders, the deputy head at Monkton Combe senior school, in Bath, told BBC News that such devices were making exams a "nightmare to administer". "I expect the hidden market for these sorts of devices is significant, and this offering on Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg." A spokesman for Amazon said the company did not want to comment on the sale of the cheating watches. But professors are striking back. "My microbiology professor does a watch check every time we have a test," says Abigail Lauze. "If it's not an old school analog it has to come off and go in the cell phone bin."
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if the answer is not in the book, or computer or neighbor... then your teacher is just a sadistic asshole.
Not at all. I've taken tests that were 100% open book BUT if you had to spend a lot of time looking stuff up you were going to fail the test due to time constraints. The point of open book tests is to avoid needlessly penalizing folks for forgetting some minor bit of trivia or a formula. It's not supposed to be a substitute for actually learning the material.
That's what happens in my son's middle school. Kids are allowed to have smartphones, but can't have them out during school. If they are caught with a smartphone out, it's confiscated and the parent needs to come to collect it. The reason for requiring the parent to collect it is to make it a bigger offense than just "oh well, I got caught texting in class. I'll just get it before I leave." The students recognize that Offense Requiring Parental Involvement is much more serious and are therefore much more likely to stay within the rules.
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Do it like India showed us last week, all exams are do be done in swimming gear, preferably on glass desks.
You mean in their underwear
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