Today’s educational headlines have focused on the 4,000 children who got caught ‘cheating’ in their exams.
The majority of these children were apparently caught using their mobile phones to download answers to their exam questions.
I was so shocked when I heard this – not because I think these children were wrong – quite the opposite, I think they should all be praised and given an award for their ingenuity.
Isn’t it a bit peculiar how, in the twenty-first century, schools test children on the amount of information they can hold in their heads and then regurgitate on demand – when with a couple of click of on their phones all this information is available to them!
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