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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on School Lets Students 'Phone a Friend' on Exams]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</guid><description><![CDATA[In their working lives they will never need to carry enormous amounts of information around in their heads. What they will need to do is access information from all their sources quickly and they will need to check the reliability of their information....So why go to your school and spend all that money.  Just use a cell phone and there you are, instant CEO!<br><br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[John]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 20th 2008 6:45PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on School Lets Students 'Phone a Friend' on Exams]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</guid><description><![CDATA[The problem with this is that the students don't learn anything because they don't have to study and all they have to do is type something on a computer and they get their answers.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Cheese]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 20th 2008 6:56PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on School Lets Students 'Phone a Friend' on Exams]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</guid><description><![CDATA[So,,,,,,,,,Schools now have become just like GAME SHOWS, CALL A LIFE LINE!  This is absolutly insane.  How about learning?  Where does this, calling a friend for answers to a test, fit into education?  I'm sorry, you will have to help me understand this!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[stan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 20th 2008 9:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on School Lets Students 'Phone a Friend' on Exams]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</guid><description><![CDATA[Well, I disagree with you all.<br><br>When I'm interested in something, I learn. I don't forget the stuff I care about, no matter where I got it from.<br><br>I have my own computer repair shop, and guess what... I'm not an engineer. Not a technician either.<br><br>Actually, I haven't finished high school (and I deceided to suspend it for a while)..<br><br>I learned all I know from the internet (including english), and I can bet you actual money that I'm equal or better than your local IT engineer. OFFLINE. I'm perfectly capable of doing my stuff without a connection, now that I know it..<br><br>If kids don't learn by the answers they receive, then the actual problem is that _they are not educated to care about it_. So now we're talking about education...<br><br>Teachers don't educate children, they only teach. Educating is the parents' job.<br><br>So it all comes down to the parents, not the school or the kids.<br><br>After all, if my parents could do it well with me, then almost any parent can do it with almost any kid. It's just a matter of knowing what you're doing and not wanting other people (usually the teachers) to do what is YOUR job...<br><br>If you don't agree it's because you're one of them.... Blame me all you want, but you can't lie to yourself...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DarkLight]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 21st 2008 12:32AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on School Lets Students 'Phone a Friend' on Exams]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</guid><description><![CDATA[I would hate to think that my doctor, during surgery, is looking up what he needed to know on the internet. I was TAUGHT and LEARNED for 23 years of primary-high school-college-dental school and surgery residency and never had the ability to access other info when being tested. A test should be a measure of how well you have learned-not how well you can access someone else's knowledge base-it's CHEATING and B.S.!!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Dr. Roger Harris]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 21st 2008 8:49AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on School Lets Students 'Phone a Friend' on Exams]]></title><link>http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.switched.com/2008/08/20/school-lets-students-phone-a-friend-on-exams/</guid><description><![CDATA[I can't beleive how close-minded people can be!  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[unGa]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 22nd 2008 11:50AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
