Let’s Ban Students Too
April 28th, 2007
I absolutely cannot believe that a kid in my class would have been able to use an MP3 player during a test to cheat. Maybe in the schools where cheating is happening with electronic devices they have much larger classes than I ever did.
So here we go again. Instead of doing our due diligence, teaching our kids appropriate uses and giving consequences for those who are ill intended, we ban electronic devices.
Does anyone remember that prohibition didn’t work?
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April 28th, 2007 at 12:20 pm
I saw that article too, just after we’d taught our teachers how to use our new iPods that we bought for our campus!
Ironic…I posted more about it here: http://futura.edublogs.org/2007/04/27/itunes/
I agree–we cannot keep walling out technology–we have to teach children the right ways to manage it themselves.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 4:00 am
Umm, how about we ban tests that students can cheat on?
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May 3rd, 2007 at 12:33 am
Hey, can you shout this louder so my district hears? It hasn’t worked and they want to try banning hats next.
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