Abstract Virtuality » lifeskills http://jameyo.edublogs.org random thoughts from a random guy... Wed, 28 May 2008 16:09:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Cheating http://jameyo.edublogs.org/2008/03/10/cheating/ http://jameyo.edublogs.org/2008/03/10/cheating/#comments Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:45:51 +0000 jameyo http://jameyo.edublogs.org/2008/03/10/cheating/ 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…

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