Cheating March 10, 2008
Posted by jameyo in presentism.Tags: cheating, lifeskills, students
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While browsing teh interwebs today, I ran across an interesting piece about why kids cheat.
A fascinating topic and it’s made me stop and consider it all day. How many adults have you heard brag at parties about how they “got a little extra” on their taxes this year? Or ran that red light? I don’t condone cheating, but what kind of example do we truly set for our children?
A larger question is: why are we teaching content that can be cheated on? We’re not asking students to think if they’re able to cheat, are we? I can give you a list of facts and you can either learn it or find a way to bring it to the front when I call upon you to remember it. If I want you to learn it don’t I need to find something that will let you USE it? A project, perhaps?!
Call me crazy…
