As a teacher, I see and hear about all forms of cheating, from copying vocabulary work, to copying and pasting a report, to looking at another's answers on a test, to making up book reports about non-existent books. Nothing really surprises me anymore.
Read the news report of what happened in Hanover High School in Hanover, NH.
What is this telling us about the current generation?
Are they over-booked with too many academic, activity, job-related and personal commitments that they have no time to do their work, complete assignments, or study for tests?
Are parents or the students themselves putting too much pressure on the students to achieve a good grade that learning takes second place?
Are schools and teachers emphasizing the wrong thing- grades instead of actual learning?
No learning can actually be graded- learning is learning- it changes the brain. How can that be graded?
So what do we and teachers, students and administrators do about cheating?
What is the parental role in this issue?
2 comments:
There's no true way of escaping cheating; it's a natural thing to most people, usually the lazy. Sure it's senseless to the hardworker because they know that hard work pays off in the end, but the ones who don't understand that will cheat their entire way through life. You're right, you can't grade learning and it's sometimes difficult to make students learn rather than test and possibly cheat for some. You can lecture as much as you want as a guardian or teacher, but students do as they wish. Our generation is more so independent than the earlier ones, but also at times follow others too much and it occassionally ends up being the wrong way. I guess I have no true feeling on what to do with it, never gave it that much thought.
Cheating Sucks.. anyway...hey Hans, do i have to leave 3 seperate comments or can i just make one comment about all 3 websites on the crucible?
Murphy
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