Are handhelds prone to more cheating?
This is a concern many teachers bring up when first learning that they are going to get handhelds in their classroom. Other concerns are breakage, loss, battery, games, and of course what to do with them. Now, it would definitely depend on what kind of lesson you were doing with handhelds. Anything where the desired result involves identical outcomes (for example, Copy these vocabulary words from the board.) is not such a great idea. Also, beaming answers is not a particularly effective way to cheat on a test. Sometimes the beam goes to someone elses handheld. Plus, if both people do not delete the files, when they sync it goes to PAAM so there is a record. – Report a Problem – Return to Question List – Do assignments ever get lost when using handhelds? Students still sometimes lose their work on handhelds. Here are three ways this can happen. 1. Students do not sync (backup) their work, and then they lose all power or break their handheld. Thus, the work is gone. 2. Students delete th
