Is Technology Making It Easier or Harder To Cheat in School?

It's a lot easier but teachers and professors will grow to trust their students, especially at a college level. People can be honest, and if they make the right decisions their honesty can definitely pay off. I went to a high school where they were pretty strict on cell phones, after a year or so the students started really obeying the rule and the teachers learned to trust their students. Cell phones have never been a method of cheating where I come from, calculators have been though. If you have a TI-82 or greater calculator you can easily store a good amount of data on it. That method really only works when you're in a math class. It would never look normal if you took your calculator out during an English test.

Honesty is key, I have been honest and I have made my way through high school and now soon to start college. It's one of those things where you can't control really.

I think it is making it much easier, because of calculator's, and all of the extremely advanced things that cell phones can do. If I wanted to, I could pull out my cell phone, hide it in my pocket when the teacher walks by, then pull it out, go to Google, or the calculator app, and do my entire quiz. That is, if I was a cheater, and didn't care about my education. In our school we have security camera's to prevent that from happening, but it still happens a lot.

It is a lot easier. Especially now that a lot of things are going online. A lot of standardized test I had to take are online and that makes it really easy to cheat. Like on a math test I can use a calculator. And on a vocabulary test I could look up all the words online.

Technology definitely makes is easier to cheat, no doubt about that. The problem is the student. Sure you can cheat and pass but your really only hurting yourself. Education is not important to these people and their goal is to squeak by and get a minimum wage job and live paycheck to paycheck the rest of their life. Hey if that's what you want have at it, someone has to be my cashier and clean those bathrooms. Sorry went on a bit of a rant, its just disappointing to see that....

Well its harder to cheat in school unless if your taking computer class and it will be easy to cheat in school.

Copying information from a single source is plagiarism; Copying information from multiple sources is research.

Nah, Teacher aren't that tech savvy in my school.

Whatever my computer teacher does something, I have a way to fix something.

Well, it's easier but it still depends on the students or pupils. They go to the school to learn as they supposed to do and I am one of them.

I think that it is easier to access information using a mobile device nowadays, but that doesn't necessarily make cheating easier. I think that it is hard to go online or pull up an app while only using one hand and/or trying not to look at the screen. I think that, if the teacher is paying attention, they would notice someone with both hands under the table, or staring in their lap, or both. My teacher in high school (math class) would personally clear all of our calculators before a test, so that we couldn't store any equations or similar data. If you're texting for answers, you either need to keep the phone totally silent and monitor is constantly, or run the risk of the teacher hearing it vibrate (or heaven forbid, ring). In the end, I'm not sure if technology really is affecting how easy it is to cheat.