child protection + anti-cheating

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

This exists in http://italc.sourceforge.net/home.php

On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 9:33 PM, Wade Brainerd <wadetb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something I hope will end up in Sugar someday are more classroom
> management tools.
>
> Maine's Apple-based classroom laptop system gives the teacher the
> ability to remotely watch the screens of all the kids in the room.  No
> need to stand at the back of the classroom.
>
> Just the knowledge that the teacher is capable of doing this is
> usually enough to keep kids from IMing answers to each other.
>
> Perhaps a 'Classroom' activity will make it onto the AT proposals list :)
>
> -Wade
>
> On 1/10/09, Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:25 PM, Chris Ball <cjb at laptop.org> wrote:
> >>   > How do we prevent cheating between students?
> >>
> >> You can't prevent this.
> >
> > Exactly. I've been working with online tools for education for ~8
> > years now, and it's interesting to note - paper+pen technology does
> > not prevent cheating either.
> >
> > A few times I've been confronted with "this cannot possibly be used in
> > education until there is no way of cheating with it", ignoring that
> > books, pen and paper are *great* for cheating. And also for smuggling
> > questionable printed materials into school too -- books and folders
> > can hide magazines with porn or political manifestos.
> >
> > Ban paper, put anyone who owns a printer in jail :-)
> >
> > cheers,
> >
> >
> >
> > martin
> > --
> >  martin.langhoff at gmail.com
> >  martin at laptop.org -- School Server Architect
> >  - ask interesting questions
> >  - don't get distracted with shiny stuff  - working code first
> >  - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff
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