Artifact 7 Cheaters Beware!

It was interesting to me to read that cheating amongst students was about 20 percent in the 90s, then raised to about 50 percent in 2002, and has since then dropped about 10 percent.  The article was from 2008 so since then it could have changed some as well.  I was surprised at this because I thought, at least from high school, that students were still cheating just as much or even more.  I have never seen anyone cheat the ways they explained in the article aside from having the notes on their cell phones.  Yeah I know that there are papers available and numerous other ways to cheat but I just really have never personally experienced anyone cheating in those ways.  I did experience a very embarrassing situation about cheating first hand.  My freshmen year of high school I was in my basic art class and we had to take a quiz on a movie we had watched and of course I was really paying attention to the movie.  When it came time to take the quiz, I looked off the guys sitting next to me for a few answers.  One happened to be about how big the shoes were that the video talked about... he took a random, stupid guess and said 15 feet.  I didn't read the question and sure enough, I wrote down 15 feet.  Then my teacher went on later to say "Connor, 15 feet for a pair of shoes?! Really?!"

 Also, I found it interesting that professors spend so much effort trying to catch plagiarism.  I know that that is an important issue that should be enforced, but just with all the students a professor has and all the work to be graded, it just doesn't seem like they would spend that much time on it.  I did hear about turnitin.com in my senior year english class.  It seems like some of the anticheating technology that schools are using or requiring are a little too overboard.  Like the 360 degree webcam for an online class.  Like seriously, thats almost invading a person's privacy.  I think that the testing centers are more appropriate and realistic.  Some of the cheat-proof ideas from the article are very good but some I think are taking it a little too far.