Webb's Learning with New Media
13Sep/08

Chacha ch-ch-cheating?

If we're worried that chacha will create cheaters, I'm worried that we're asking students the wrong questions.  Or more to the point, let's ask questions that require students to apply knowledge.

My post yesterday bordered on whining, but it felt good to express my frustration about students' perception of the grading process. Though I dreaded the inevitable, "I worked so hard" that came after any kind of feedback, I don't completely blame students. I blame the whole culture of "school." Understanding the content at the heart of a subject is just the first step to becoming a master of an area, or even a competent contender.  And since most students I encountered thought the first resource that came up in a google search was the right answer, I am not too worried about the "cheating" aspect. The "cheating" part seems to be what's happened to students who have learned throughout school that learning is all about "the right answer." I would just ask, has the concept of what it means to "know" something shifted, and can't we take that into account in the education process? If I can ask my friends and they can tell me the right answer, maybe the question wasn't so great to begin with....

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