Month: March 2011

Some notes on cheating in the classroom

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Today I gave a presentation at the WSST conference on cheating in the classroom. Below are the quotes, articles, videos, and books I shared.

Looking for a place to start? I highly recommend this book:

Cheating in School
Cheating in School: What We Know and What We Can Do

Much of today’s talk came from this book.  For example, here are a few quotes from the book that caught my eye:

Persistent student cheating may corrupt a child’s character and lead to a devaluing of trust, fairness, respect, responsibility, and honesty as fundamentals in a just society.

[cheating in school] may form a habit that persists and transitions into an adult’s work and life habits

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Convert that old hard copy with OCR

Dale

Despite my love for computers, I’m not strong when it comes to typing. The idea of retyping something makes me cringe.

That’s why I was so happy to stumble upon Online OCR.

Out with the old and in with the new
Out with the old and in with the new

Using optical character recognition (OCR), this site will take any old document that you’ve scanned in as a PDF and convert it to editable text.