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Rich Kids Are Cheating in School With Apple Watches (theoutline.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: There is, however, one demographic that has embraced the Apple Watch with open arms: tech-savvy, upper middle-class teens and tweens. The watch is a convenient workaround for classroom cell-phone bans; it can be used for everything from texting to cheating on tests. [...] Julia Rubin, a former middle-school teacher at a private school in New York City, said that when the Apple Watch first came out in 2014, a handful of students got them as presents for the holidays.
When Rubin asked her school's principal to ban the watches the same way the school banned cell phones, she refused. In addition to kids texting during class, there is growing concern that smart watches could be used to help kids cheat during exams. In fact, there is a wealth of YouTube videos showing teens how to do precisely that, usually with the disclaimer that they are only sharing this information "for entertainment purposes."
[...] Nikias Molina, 20, is a Spanish vlogger who runs the YouTube channel Apple World. A slender, dark-haired kid with braces and a slight European accent, Molina posted a 2018 video showing subscribers how to use various apps on the Apple Watch to cheat on exams. As he demonstrates in the video and explained to me, there are apps you can download onto the Apple Watch to save PDFs, but the most common method is to take a photo of a cheat sheet and pull it up on the Apple Watch, which doesn't require internet accessibility. The response to the video was mixed -- "students were thanking me [in the comments], and teachers were hating on me" -- but the video racked up more than 115,000 views.
When Rubin asked her school's principal to ban the watches the same way the school banned cell phones, she refused. In addition to kids texting during class, there is growing concern that smart watches could be used to help kids cheat during exams. In fact, there is a wealth of YouTube videos showing teens how to do precisely that, usually with the disclaimer that they are only sharing this information "for entertainment purposes."
[...] Nikias Molina, 20, is a Spanish vlogger who runs the YouTube channel Apple World. A slender, dark-haired kid with braces and a slight European accent, Molina posted a 2018 video showing subscribers how to use various apps on the Apple Watch to cheat on exams. As he demonstrates in the video and explained to me, there are apps you can download onto the Apple Watch to save PDFs, but the most common method is to take a photo of a cheat sheet and pull it up on the Apple Watch, which doesn't require internet accessibility. The response to the video was mixed -- "students were thanking me [in the comments], and teachers were hating on me" -- but the video racked up more than 115,000 views.
What's the difference between pulling up a cheat sheet on your watch and having one stuck in your sock? I suppose you could keep more material on your watch, but as everyone who's ever written an open book test knows, more material is a curse, not a blessing.
If you see a kid fiddling with their smart watch during a test, fail them. Can't do that? THAT's your problem, not the watch.
I'll go one further. "Rich kids" because they have an Apple Watch? Really? Now the definition between "rich" and "poor" is based on a $349 device?
Design the exams like university level exams, where a cheat (equation) sheet is allowed, but you actually need to understand the material to finish the exam in time. regurgitation based exams are stupid.
Now the definition between "rich" and "poor" is based on a $349 device?
How to tell the difference between a "rich" kid and a "poor" kid:
A "rich" kid wears a $349 Apple Watch.
A "poor" kid wears a pair of $349 Nikes.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
You're looking for some kind of SJW narrative that isn't there and are putting your perceptions/delusions on stage for everyone to see.
They mention "rich kids" because most normal people can't afford a smart watch, meaning that this type of cheating is more exclusive to the wealthy. In my own experience that's true, in university we had two rich assholes (drove fancy cars, smoked weed 24/7, parents were doctors -- typical worthless human beings) who cheated using their watches. Both were terrible engineers and still graduated because we don't expel foreign (Indian/Chinese 99% of the time) students for any reason, even cheating, in order to get federal funding pumping into the university.
Anyway, stop being a proto-Nazi brigading piece of shit with all your SJW talk. Guys like you make the rest of us white folk look like fucking monsters. If you want to lick Trump or Hitler's boots, you are welcome to do so, but keep that shit to yourself and your weak-minded brethren.
An Apple Watch may not be cheap, but having one hardly makes anyone rich. We really have a strange way of measuring wealth in this country.
Really? A "European" accent?
Can they mean "speaks Spanish like a Spaniard rather than a Mexican/Puerto Rican/American/etc," or "speaks English with a Spanish, rather than Mexican/etc accent."
Or perhaps it means they are unable to distinguish between the accents of the Spanish, Greeks, Italians, French, Germans, Poles, Finns, Swedes or British, let alone the regions thereof? (other European countries are available)
Whatever they mean, it adds nothing to the actual story and serves only to demonstrate the laziness and ignorance of this "journalist," and the ineptitude of the editorial oversight processes of this "publication."
Sorry, but this sort of thing really pisses me off - if copy like this came across my desk (OK, so it wouldn't actually, but you know what I mean), words would be had... probably starting with "bollocks."
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I was unaware it was possible to see skin color in arbitrary textual content.
Fucking piece of shit.
You're assuming the purpose of TFA is investigative journalism. To bring an important issue to the public's attention.
It's not. The purpose is to generate more page loads and thus more advertising revenue. So if inflammatory insinuations - like singling out kids who wear an Apple Watch, or speak with a "Europeant" accent - gets you all in a huff to where you click on TFA, then it's done its job. It's one of the reasons I'm not that critical of comments here from people who haven't read TFA. So many of articles are click-bait that I won't fault someone for using a too-stringent anti-click-bait filter and not reading TFA.
that is incredibly racist.
you never mentioned race
Something isn't racist merely because it (possibly) has some correlation with race.
Misusing words like 'racist' makes fighting actual racism harder, not easier.