hi-tech exam cheating

[Job]

BBC story

I find this rather farcical, they are swimming against the tide.
What is cheating anyway, it would seem the Danes have woken up and smelt the coffee by allowing internet access during exams.
Instant access to information will soon be the norm and trying to remember
it will soon seem pathetically pointless.
use the freakin technology, don't hold people back with outdated
notions of 'hard work' and individual accomplishments.

Who suffers if we cheat?
Your peers in the exam? Not if we all got to cheat!
People who have revised hard? Well why bother?
Employers? Everyone will have the same access to knowledge as everyone else!

Going to school and learning is slow inefficient and like spell check we will make technology bypass these outdated social norms.

The things in life that make it worth 'playing' are slowly being eaten away by technology till they reach a singularity, if we allowed kids internet access in exams you just might as well answer the questions yourself which kind
of encapsulates the whole pointlessness of it.

The universe will end up with 2 molecules on a see-saw...
Job drifts off into lunacy..

 

[Sparx]

what a complete load of bollocks

 

[Golena]

Agree that in principle allowing technology makes sense but I do think there's plenty of problems with it.

Allowing full unrestricted access to the internet just means you post your exam paper on a forum. Get your smart freddys house mates to supply the answers then copy them on to an exam paper without actually needing to learn a thing. It would become who you know rather than what you know.

The problem is that the people cheating will always be one step ahead of the people examining in this case so removing all the technology is the only way of really controlling it properly.

Just remove the stupid, remember 3 things then write them down questions. Parroting information no longer has a place a world with google.

 

[Bugz]

Job can you atleast open the topic coherently? Hard to decipher your stance through all that. That said:

Can google answer a question on integration a curve in the 3d plane? No. Can it give you the formula etc. behind it? Yes.

 

[mooSe_]

who is dumb enough to need to cheat at GCSEs?

 

[Bugz]

GCSE Chemistry was hard.

 

[Golena]

who is dumb enough to need to cheat at GCSEs?

Ironically the same people who are probably too stupid to know how to cheat effectively.

 

[Job]

Obviously I'm not referring to something as basic as Google search.

You'd need something clever enough to answer any question for you, which
as I was very strangely trying to point out by default kinda removes you from the process.

If we ask a generation questions about life and they just go and get the answers from a huge knowledge bank , we might as well just do it ourselves.

At the moment we don't do that because it's still very difficult to obtain
this complete knowledge and comprehension , but when Google20 is up and running individual knowledge and understanding will seem like an expensive and time consuming luxury.
All ready the present search engines have watered down our respect for individual knowledge and imagination will be our greatest tool.

 

[Sparx]

funny how you can find out 90% of anything you need via google search

 

[Sparx]

Job how long have you worked in the real world? i know i would be extremely pissed if someone got ajob i went for and got it based on the fact they cheated to get their qualifications and i earned mine

 

[old.Tohtori]

I think i'll keep my part on this subject in the general chat.

 

[Jugvayne]

Job can you atleast open the topic coherently? Hard to decipher your stance through all that. That said:

Can google answer a question on integration a curve in the 3d plane? No. Can it give you the formula etc. behind it? Yes.

That's what a formula booklet is for. As Golena said people could just post the question on forums and get help that way. There are way too many problems allowing internet access in exams, it shouldn't happen full stop.

 

[CorNokZ]

wait.. what? my last exam I wasn't even allowed a computer let alone an english dictionary!

Here in Denmark we apparently even haven't heard of coffee yet!