Academic cheating and dishonesty have long been a problem. But with YouTube students have discovered a new avenue for actually promoting such fraud. Liz Losh, a rhetorician at the University of California at Irvine, notes that there’s now a genre of videos that combine cheating advice with a “do-it-yourself aesthetic.” She flagged one of them Wednesday on her blog. It shows a student using a scanner and photo-editing software to make a cheat sheet on a Coke bottle.
Of course, the deception works only if students can have beverages with them when they’re sitting for exams. —Andrea L. Foster
One Response to Students Show How to Cheat via YouTube
chri4557 - June 17, 2012 at 6:28 pm
I remember doing problems back in 9th grade geometry, specifically the four color theorem but others too, where we could not prove things because we could not make an infinite number of examples. The Collatz conjecture seems similar: we can’t keep testing until infinity, so we don’t know. I did not think that this was too much. Anyone alert to current events will know that computers have only computed so far. For example, we have ‘only’ calcuated 5 trillion digits in pi. There are plenty of clues out there to figure this one out.