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I read a blog called Pocket Texting and Open Phone Tests by Will Richardson and what mattered was how kids are cheating on there tests. This post talked about how a 14 year old boy named Insoo from South Korea who could send texts on his cell phone with out even taking it out of his poket. He would send these texts to get answers on tests and stuff in school. It also talks about a web site that he goes on to that you can post questions, and a few minutes later someone will post an answer. The article said:

The first thing Insoo does after Hakwon [his school] is, of course, turn on the PC. Insoo has a difficult math problem as homework. He posts it up on Naver Knowledge iN, a popular online Q&A service with some 70 million entries. Within about 10 minutes of posting, someone chimes in with a good answer, and Insoo awards him with some “Knowledge Power” points — knowledge-based economy in action among 14-year-olds.

I think that this is bad because of how easy it makes it to cheat. A question that Will asked was: Should open phone tests be ok? I say that they should definitely not be ok be cause the kids could just text and get the answers from another kid who already took the test. Then they wouldn't be learning anything. The kids should just study and do good on their own. I can kind of relate this to my social studies class because we switch papers and grade each others quizzes and their has been some cheating where two kids switch the answers for each other if they got it wrong. And I'm sure that that isn't the only class were people cheat. There is always going to be some people who cheat and I think that we should do the most we can to stop it, and open phone tests is probably not helping.