Schools Ban iPods to Prevent Cheating

Schools have a long history of banning things to prevent its students from cheating. The newest entrant to the list is iPod. Devices like iPod or Zune which can be easily sneaked under pockets, can also hold formulae and other material. A high school in Idaho is one of the first schools to impose the ban on MP3 players after teachers overheard kids talking about downloading formulae and other materials on their iPod.

Aaron Maybon, principal of Mountain View High School said: “It doesn’t take long to get out of the loop with teenagers. They come up with new and creative ways to cheat pretty fast.”

Some students use iPod compatible voice recorders to record test answers beforehand and then play it back, while others download crib notes and save them as lyrics. Kids are smart as well as creative; they’ll come up with something else to cheat. Three years ago, Duke University of North Carolina provided iPods to its students to enhance learning. Ironic isn’t it?

Source: Gizmodo

This post was published by on April 27, 2007

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  • http://auscoder.com Afterlife(69)

    Wow, I find that quite amusing :) However banning them altogether is a little harsh, why not just during tests?

  • http://www.mikroproje.com zoid

    I found this decision normal, because they should not let cheating in schools.

  • http://www.darin.cc Darin

    When I was in school I remember buying the books on CD so I can listen to them instead of reading them … I bet someone is putting books on iPods … with the answer to the exam at the end … on iPods too …

    LOL

    Darin

  • http://www.thenetguruz.com/ Mohd. Hashim Khan

    iPOD is still big to cheat with in exams, use chinese one’s instead hehe. Ban should be made only during exam times!

  • http://www.arbitraryian.com/ Yian

    @Mohd.Hashim Khan, how does using Chinese ones change the ban?

    But yeah, there’s nothing wrong with banning it for cheating. Though it should be for exams only, but our school never allows iPods during class time anyways.

    And calculators can also be used to cheat (store formulas and stuff like that). I guess they’re just un-bannable.

  • http://www.thenetguruz.com/ Mohd. Hashim Khan

    iPOD is still big to cheat with in exams, use chinese one's instead hehe. Ban should be made only during exam times!