Technology has revolutionized the whole universe. Technology show people a more efficient way to do things, and these processes get results. Education has been greatly advanced by the technological advances of computers. Students are able to learn on a global scale without even leaving their classrooms.
Technology making us dishonest and cheating easy
People actually cheated as a consequence of this motivation rather than
just conveniently excusing something that they, along with a large number of
other people were doing.
Asking students to agree to act honestly before an online quiz is likely
to be effective, whereas getting them to sign a statement after they have
written an essay and attach it to their submitted work, is not. In the case of
the self-service checkout systems, a simple introductory screen that asked
shoppers to agree that they will be honest would likely be effective in
reducing cheating at the checkout. Another way would be to have a staff member
who greets every shopper as they come to the checkout and reminds them that
they will be there to help if needed.
Technology makes cheating easier
The time has passed when students were trying to cheat on exams by
writing answer on hands or hide cheating materials on the bottom of shoes.
Technology is getting advance, so ways of cheating are also getting advanced
and examiners look for it.
It is obvious that technology has taken the educational system and
academia to higher and new levels, but with the passage of time and
advancement, the ways and opportunities for academic dishonesty are also
increasing.
Plagiarism in research papers and essays became very easy with newer and
advanced technology. Professor in the College of Liberal Arts, John Larson
mentioned “In the past, people used little crib sheets; you’d write it on your
thumbnail or on the bottom of your shoe,” Larson said. “We police test rooms,
primarily now, for phones. That’s the most effective way to cheat on a test, to
use your phone.” He also said: “In the last 10 years, the Internet has
become an amazing source of plagiarized material, You can type in a string of
words that amount to the topic of the questions and it’s not too hard to get 50
to 100 hits that you can then go through and start copying paragraph after
paragraph of material.”
Technology has made it easier for students to cheat, it’s also made it easier
for examiners or teachers to catch. Many software systems were created to catch
cases of plagiarism and cheating e.g. Blackboard’s Safe Assign, but these may
not be enough anymore.
With the advancement in technology, students are much dependent on others
work instead of doing work themselves. Due to this learning has become very
less, students don’t use their mind to solve their academic problems. All the
work, research and assignments are mostly plagiarized and due to this
students don’t focus on creativity.
Technology makes it easier to cheat. Nowadays, there is competitive
environment in all fields especially in education and that’s why it makes
people pleasure to do. Cheating exposure has increased in all aspects and
fields like news, reports, research and personal knowledge.
Gradually, fear of cheating and achieve success through unethical ways
is decreasing because once people use unethical way then they will do it again
and again and socially people will accept this way.
Reform with the help of Technology
Beside these problems created by advanced Technology, we can help to
fight cheating with the help of this technology. These are pros and cons of
everything. Just like that many examiners, teachers and administrators complain
about cheating and unethical ways due to technology, on the other hand, many
use this technology to detect and minimize cheating. There should be strict
procedure to check every work of students. Advanced Technology includes
software like Turnitin can be used to check plagiarism.
Conclusion
No doubt technology has revolutionized every field of
this world. It helps to solve problems from personal to national and
international level. It has reduced human effort. Besides all this, It has very
negative social impact. People trust technology more than their effort and struggle.
People use unethical ways to complete their targets, projects and task.
Cheating in exams is increasing day by day and the worst thing is people don’t
feel it negative or bad. The society has accepted this way. People don’t focus
on creativity. If we realize all this and want to make
change, we have to maintain equilibrium. We get help from technology but we
should not totally depend on technology. We should socially interact with
people. And we have to realize and focus on awareness creativity
and positive change.
