The amount of cheating that happens in classrooms whether it is a test, quiz, or exam, has excelled because of the facile ability to store notes and/or answers. Another disadvantage is how simple the task is of hiding a small sized device under a desk while cheating. Based on iKEEPSAFE’s survey,“ 35% of the students surveyed admitted to using a cell phone to cheat.” These students use multiple strategies to use their phones for cheating. Some of the examples stated on the iKEEPSAFE web page are “Storing notes, using a calculator, sending texts messages with questions or answers, looking up answers on the internet, and using a cellphone camera to take picture of a test.” Without a doubt, students will come up with new strategies to cheat The amount of personal devices used at work also portrays the possible complications in the near …show more content…
Using smartphones for texting, social media, and gaming has become an addiction to a large number of our population. According to NY Daily News, a survey was made in a “New Time Mobility Poll” and “84 percent of people surveyed said they couldn’t go a single day without their mobile device in hand”. The common dependence of these devices has lead to the lack of face to face interaction.In the passage Growing Up Tethered, written by Sherry Turkle, she gives an example of a seventeen-year-old girl that gets,“practice of being a different type of person”(244) through the use of a virtual reality app. The example gives by Turtle illustrates the possibility of the young population becoming an imitation of who they want to be and not who they really are. Through this, one also may not practice their social skills and the ability to read body language as needed in the real