This year our school went one-to-one with Chromebooks.

This can make cheating much

easier, especially since all of our test and quizzes are given online. I personally have not

witnessed a student cheating using technology in my classroom; however, another teacher I work

with caught one of her students cheating during a social studies test. For science and social

studies, all of our notes were on google slides. So the teacher caught a student with his notes up

while taking the test. Once she discovered this, she immediately took his Chromebook, and made

him call his mother to tell him what he had done. He was given silent lunch, no recess, had to

retake the test with paper and pencil, and his Chromebook privileges were taken for 2 weeks.

Incidents like this happen for several reasons. First, as I previously stated, all of our test

and quizzes have to be done online through a program called Mastery Connect. Mastery Connect

is great because it shows us how many students missed each question, etc. However, the

questions can’t be put in random order. This makes it easier for students to cheat. To prevent

other students cheating off one another, the teacher can give students cover folders or position

students in ways were it is hard to see each others screens. Another problem is our notes as well

as “google” is easily available to students. This makes it easier to cheat than paper and pencil

test. One way to prevent students from using these things to assist them during test is for teachers

to constantly be walking around monitoring during test. Finally, if a student is caught cheating, I

think it is important for other students to know their consequences. This way other students are

fearful of the consequences that occur when you cheat. There are other ways to prevent cheating

that were discussed in the slides; however, sometimes they aren’t easily done. For example,

locking down the browser so students can’t launch other windows.