Banned Instruments

IPods have joined the list of electronic devices that schools are banning. Why? Because teachers have discovered that they can be used to cheat.

Seems to us that perhaps it's time to look at changing classroom assessment so that it's not amenable to cheating...but if you want to read an interesting article on how kids use technology as crib sheets, look on Yahoo! News: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070427/ap_on_hi_te/ipod_cheating