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Algeria Shuts Off Entire Country's Internet To Stop Students From Cheating (gizmodo.com)
Algeria has begun instituting nationwide internet blackouts to prevent students from leaking high school diploma exams online. Gizmodo reports: The country will turn off mobile and landline internet service across the country for an hour at a time during the exam period, which started on Wednesday and runs through June 25. The 11 blackouts are scheduled for an hour after each exam begins. In 2016, exam questions were reportedly leaked online and authorities were dissatisfied with a less stringent attempt to limit social media during the 2017 exams. The sweeping shutdown will also block Facebook for the entirety of the exam period, Education Minister Nouria Benghabrit told Algerian newspaper Annahar, according to the BBC. Benghabrit reportedly said they are "not comfortable" with their choice to shut down all internet service, but that they "should not passively stand in front of such a possible leak." Metal detectors are reportedly being used to make sure that no one brings any internet-enabled devices into the exam halls. Surveillance cameras and phone jammers are also being used at the locations where the exams are being printed.
Because students don't cheat, the internet cheats!
The problem is broken culture, not internet access.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
Always wondered what would happen if the student population gets organized/determined enough to cheat that they set up an underground wireless network (if that term even makes sense)?
What you're looking for is this:
A mobile ad hoc network (MANET), also known as wireless ad hoc network or ad hoc wireless network, is a continuously self-configuring, infrastructure-less network of mobile devices connected wirelessly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Have fun and enjoy!
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Why shut down the entire country's internet, when you can just wrap the testing location in wire?
Of course, anyone with an electronic device could still just have his cheat-sheet cached on it locally...
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Why does Algeria have so much more trouble dealing with cheating than America? Can Algeria learn anything from the American model?
You're implying US students don't cheat, or cheat much less than Algerian students. Which is likely wrong.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Maybe they should make the test harder and just expect kids to use any resource available to them because that's how life does work.
Would you want to live in an apartment building designed by a construction engineer who passed his engineering license exams by having his roommate give him the answers to the test, or one who understands the concepts of load bearing this and stress limit that? You know, one who can tell that the answer he gets from Wikipedia about how to design where you sleep at night isn't right?
like, did you even TRY yo search online?
Would you like him to be the programmer on your team who implements an O(N^2) sort in your app because that's the first one he found online, instead of understanding the problem and using an O(N) algorithm, or understanding even more and deciding it is appropriate to use an O(1) "sort" by keeping a sorted, linked-list of the data instead of sorting each time? Do YOU want to have to tell the client that the app you wrote for him is miserably slow in real life applications because he's got too much data and your programmer was a cut-and-paste-from-the-net expert who didn't understand how to make it fast enough from the beginning?