This video clip, from ABC NEWS, shows how students are using the Internet to teach each other how to cheat. The video explores the culture and technological implications of this phenomenon. Check it out.
The Internet has given unprecedented access to information, but where do
we draw the line? A new Web site invites users to share old college exams
online. Is it cheating — or democracy?
Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem. But with YouTube students have discovered a new avenue for actually promoting such fraud. Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the University of California at Irvine, notes that there’s now a genre of videos that combine cheating advice with a “do-it-yourself aesthetic.” She flagged one of them Wednesday on her blog. It shows a student using a scanner and photo-editing software to make a cheat sheet on a Coke bottle.
Article discusses China's gold farms, where workers play online games 12 hr/day to accumulate virtual goods that companies can sell to Western players. In the eyes of many gamers real-money trading (RMT) is essentially a form of cheating. Economist Castronova showed that the classic economic distinction between play and production has melted away. Play has begun to do real work.
Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school’s history.
The Game Genie is a series of cheat cartridges designed by Codemasters and sold by Camerica and Galoob for the Nintendo Entertainment System, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Game Boy, Mega Drive/Genesis, and Sega Game Gear that modifies game data, allowing the player to cheat, manipulate various aspects of games, and sometimes view unused content and functions. Although there are currently no Game Genie products on the market, most video game console emulators feature Game Genie support.
Video-game players often hold radically different views on what constitutes cheating. Today's digital fare represents the first time we've argued about the precise meaning of cheating.
Two McLean High School students have launched a court challenge against a California company hired by their school to catch cheaters, claiming the anti-plagiarism service violates copyright laws. "You can't take a person's work and run it through a computer and make an honest person out of them," Wade said. "My son's major objection is that he does not cheat, and this assumes he does.
Increasing droves of students are seeking late-night or last-minute homework help from online tutors, the Brigham Young University NewsNet reports, and peers and professors are asking the usual questions: Will they learn? And will they cheat?
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This video clip, from ABC NEWS, shows how students are using the Internet to teach each other how to cheat. The video explores the culture and technological implications of this phenomenon. Check it out.
The Internet has given unprecedented access to information, but where do we draw the line? A new Web site invites users to share old college exams online. Is it cheating — or democracy?
Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem. But with YouTube students have discovered a new avenue for actually promoting such fraud. Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the University of California at Irvine, notes that there’s now a genre of videos that combine cheating advice with a “do-it-yourself aesthetic.” She flagged one of them Wednesday on her blog. It shows a student using a scanner and photo-editing software to make a cheat sheet on a Coke bottle.
Article discusses China's gold farms, where workers play online games 12 hr/day to accumulate virtual goods that companies can sell to Western players. In the eyes of many gamers real-money trading (RMT) is essentially a form of cheating. Economist Castronova showed that the classic economic distinction between play and production has melted away. Play has begun to do real work.
Thirty-four first-year business graduate students at Duke University cheated on a take-home final exam, a judicial board has found, in what officials called the most widespread cheating episode in the business school’s history.
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