I knew this would happen. Not to boast, but I did. Drudge linked to a story from The Chicago Sun-Times on how kids are spreading cheating tactics through YouTube.
From the article:
‘‘I know it’s not a good thing to cheat,’’ she said. ‘‘It’s academic dishonesty, blah, blah, blah. But I think everyone has at least done it once.’’
Kiki’s video is one of several dozen on the popular Internet site YouTube that show detailed ways to cheat on tests. Students no longer conceal answers in the sole of a shoe or the underside of a baseball cap’s bill. In the age of continual access to the Internet and laser-precision printers, cheating has gone high-tech.
And some techniques, like Kiki’s, come with a guarantee.
‘‘This is 98 percent effective,’’ she said. ‘‘Hopefully, any of my teachers don’t see this video. It would be very awkward.’
While this is a resource for students to discover new ways of cheating, it should also be a valuable resource for teachers. This is the information age, where you can learn about anything you want with a simple Google search.
The video below has over 2 Million views. With all the time that this kid spent making the video, he probably could have just studied and would have ended up knowing the material just as well without cheating....
