[Cupid]

Over 1,500 new students at an American university are being kitted out with iPods to help them learn.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/0...gy/3913091.stm

[Sparklechick]

Hmm, that's an interesting one.

I watched a programme the other day about kids turning in term papers/assignments where over 60% had been copied directly from the web.

There are actual websites out there that teachers can enter a student's paper in and it will highlight lines that have been directly copied from text off the web. Bummer for those students who couldn't be arsed thinking for themselves.

[Penny]

Its good those websites exist.... but the internet just makes it easier for poeple to do that *remembers copying out (by hand!!) paragraph or two from a book or two in her time*

[lookingforthesane]

Go the iPOD!!! i have one and they are great. Does it help me learn, no not at all

[Sparklechick]

Originally Posted by Penny

Its good those websites exist.... but the internet just makes it easier for poeple to do that *remembers copying out (by hand!!) paragraph or two from a book or two in her time*

Yeah the odd line here and there was okay but these kids were copying entire essays! Not trying to put anything in their own words at all.