The Dangers of iPods
Besides the novel and absolutely brilliant idea that turning the volume lower is better for your hearing, there is another iPod issue brewing in our nation's schools and colleges. Those evil iPods are being used to cheat on tests. I used to think that my law school was being totally paranoid when they made us take our typewriters to the technical department to be cleared as not having hidden memory or other functions to cheat on exams with. However, apparently my daughter's high school found that students were using their iPods to cheat by recording answers and then uploading them to the iPods. Students WERE allowed to use their iPods to block out distractions. Not anymore. A notice was sent home to parents telling us that the kids could no longer use iPods in class.
I have to wonder...if these students put as much effort into studying as they put into cheating, perhaps they wouldn't have to cheat....