I was going through the Google reader articles today when I came around an interesting article titled Pocket Texting and Open Phone Tests by Will Richardson. The article talks about how a highschool student named Insoo uses his phone to text answers and uses the computer to reach answers to complicated problems.
Insoo doesn’t even have to take the phone out of his pocket to send an SMS. He knows how to slide it open, which buttons to push how many times to reach the “Send SMS” menu option, compose the entire text message, and hit the send button — all without even looking at the phone. This is especially handy when he needs to send an SMS during class. There is also a website that you can log into and types in any type of question and in a few minutes have another person answer them. Then Insoo can reward that person “knowledge points” which gives them credit for doing the problem. There are about 70 million users on this site so it is an easy way to cheat on homework.
I personally believe there is no gain from this what so ever. Even though you get your homework done you are not really learning the content. Soon that type of problem or question will come up on a test and you wont know how to solve it. This obviously is not beneficial.
In the classrooms today many children text each other. Some are pros and can text in their pockets like Insoo. In the article it talks about how they could be Texting answers to test questions with the teachers being oblivious to what is happening. With the technology today children should be able to use this technology wisely.
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