Education is the building block of society. Without it, the world would spiral downward. Naturally, individuals should want to receive the best education possible, right? But what is considered the “best” form of education? How can an individual determine what form is most effective when there are so many different ways of receiving an education? Every individual learns best under slightly different circumstances. It is possible for one type of schooling to be incredibly effective for one individual and be incredibly ineffective for another. This paper will focus on two of the more predominant forms of schooling, online and traditional. In a society that passes judgment on someone, based on education alone, it is necessary to determine
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In schools systems it has always and will always be present. Cheating can be defined as misleading, deceiving, or acting dishonestly on purpose. It is not necessarily very difficult to get answers from a fellow classmate or from the internet. But, is it more difficult to cheat in a public school or a virtual one? Technology today has made it fairly easy to do in both. Online schools revolve solely around internet use. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and computer systems administrator, claims “Computer-enabled students spend more time preening their reports than understanding the subject matter.”(Technology and Society, pg. 71). Students who are on a computer all day for classes will get side tracked and focus of things other than the school work. Their criteria will not be taken seriously at first, so when the work is finally due, the students will surf the web for answers rather than actually doing the work on their own. Tests and quizzes cannot be as closely monitored in a virtual school as they can be in a traditional school. Regardless of this fact, academic dishonestly in traditional schools is a much bigger problem than most people realize. Center for Academic Integrity did a study that reported more than seventy percent of high school students in the United States admitted to cheating in 2005 (Scholastic Choices, 2007). Cheating is so common now a days that students will justify the action by claiming everyone does it. Many students do not see a problem with the action. Whether or not a parent’s child will find fault in the act could be a determining factor in choosing the best form of
In schools systems it has always and will always be present. Cheating can be defined as misleading, deceiving, or acting dishonestly on purpose. It is not necessarily very difficult to get answers from a fellow classmate or from the internet. But, is it more difficult to cheat in a public school or a virtual one? Technology today has made it fairly easy to do in both. Online schools revolve solely around internet use. Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and computer systems administrator, claims “Computer-enabled students spend more time preening their reports than understanding the subject matter.”(Technology and Society, pg. 71). Students who are on a computer all day for classes will get side tracked and focus of things other than the school work. Their criteria will not be taken seriously at first, so when the work is finally due, the students will surf the web for answers rather than actually doing the work on their own. Tests and quizzes cannot be as closely monitored in a virtual school as they can be in a traditional school. Regardless of this fact, academic dishonestly in traditional schools is a much bigger problem than most people realize. Center for Academic Integrity did a study that reported more than seventy percent of high school students in the United States admitted to cheating in 2005 (Scholastic Choices, 2007). Cheating is so common now a days that students will justify the action by claiming everyone does it. Many students do not see a problem with the action. Whether or not a parent’s child will find fault in the act could be a determining factor in choosing the best form of