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Students who bring their own PDAs to school today mostly use them as organizers and notepads. But many newer models have wireless Internet access, making it ever more difficult for teachers to detect students exchanging gossipy notes or test answers.
If schools haven't addressed the PDA issue yet, "it's something they'll have to wrestle with in the next couple of years as students bring more of these kind of gadgets to schools," said John Bailey, director of education technology for the Department of Education.
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Source: CNN
When I was in school, about the sneakest thing we could get away with was playing games on our graphing calculators. Now kids have wireless net access right in the classrooms. I can see both positive and negitive effects of this. It would be great to have all that information at your fingertips, but does it mean that kids will really learn less? Is being able to lookup
http://www.google.com/search?q=American+Revolution just as good as memorizing what happened? I'm not a big fan of being forced to memorize trivia, especially when I can have an augmented memory with a PDA. What do you think? Is augmented memory smart, or just cheating?