Comments on: Kansas School District Purchases 2,300 Palm TX Handhelds
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RE: How do you keep kids from cheating?
Last year, I was playing pub trivia a lot and must confess that I would often use my Treo to Google the answers that stumped everyone. The temptation was too great - it's just so damn easy to find answers nowadays. Eventually I stopped 'cause I felt too guilty. Also because some dude on one of the opposing teams seemed to be catching on.
The only solution is to completely ban handheld devices. Which sorta defeats the purpose of this rather cool project. My school never gave me a Palm! [pout]
Tim
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Treo 270 ---> Treo 650
RE: How do you keep kids from cheating?
One also has to wonder if you might be able to save enough just by using eBooks in place of paper text books for this to pay for itself. I'm sure many of the students are glad not to have to carry all those books around.
RE: How do you keep kids from cheating?
As for your school not giving you Palms, I got my first PC when I was a Senior in college...an early graduation present from my grandmother. A Zeos 386SX...a supercharged 286 processor with 8 MB Ram (IIRC), a 5.25 floppy drive, 13" B&W monitor, DOS, Lotus 1-2-3, and Wordperfect.
Good news.
And Palm OS offers many educational and scientific programs.
Teens who get used to Palm OS early then tend to buy Palm's when they are older.
RE: Good news.
Despite a few niggles... I am beginning to love the TX. I just hope Palm continue to develop this line (more dbCache for sure) and work on ways to improve Blazer, which is serviceable but not especially fantastic.
Versamail seems to be really stable and the TX works well with my Nokia cellphone over Bluetooth.
Being left-handed, the major niggle is that after a reset the Palm prefs forgets the left-handed setting (for screen rotation) and defaults back to right-handed mode. This is a "feature" that has been with Palm devices since the T5 and has not yet been addressed.
Palm, if you're listening... please issue an update for TX to fix the handedness bug for us lefties!
KultiVator
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How do you keep kids from cheating?
So how do you keep the kids from cheating and are they as productive as laptops when combined with a keyboard? Seems to me kids can still do presentations, word processing, spreadsheets, access networks, etc.