"US schools pull plug on iPod exam cheats"

www.telegraph.co.uk

by Tom Leonard
April 28, 2007

Schools have many problems with kids cheating on exams and tests in class. And with the increase in technology kids have found new ways to cheat, which include the use of cell phones and now the biggest rage is digital media players. Officials say, "The increasingly tiny devices can be hidden under clothing, with just an earbud and a wire snaking behind the eat and into a shirt collar to give them away." With this said, you can imagine how complex cheating in schools has become.

Ipod use is being banned by more schools every day. The article also points out that, "Some students are using ipod-compatible voice recorders to tape exam answers in advance, hide them in the machine's 'lyrics' text files, and then secretly play them back." This form of cheating has recently been becoming more of a problem for teachers and administration to catch.

The recent trend of banning ipod use in schools is definitely a good way to prevent cheating. However, the article talks about how even though schools put a ban on the use of these digital media players there is still a way to beat the system. A female student in the article said, "You can just thread the earbud up your sleeve and then hold it to your ear like you're resting your head on your hand."