Technology can blur teens’ view of cheating

By Heidi Stevens,
Agence France-Presse
February 22, 2011

A call that your teenager was caught cheating is hard to interpret as anything but bad news. But you can turn the incident into a learning experience - and maybe even a turning point.
In an age of cell phone cameras, Internet-enabled hand-held devices and other technology, it’s easier than ever to game the system.
"Our poor kids live in a world where the lines have been blurred," says Liz Perle, co-founder and editor-in-chief of Common Sense Media. "Downloading a song for free. Is that theft? But it’s free. We have to look at our whole culture of electronic empowerment." the rest

In a recent poll of more than 2,000 students and parents in the U.S., Common Sense found that many teens aren’t clear about what constitutes cheating. Twenty-three percent, for example, said storing notes on a phone to access during a test is not cheating, and 19 percent said downloading a paper from the Internet to turn in as your own is not cheating.