Cheating aids
jbum
looking for help with their assignments. If they've already done most
of the work, and having trouble with a line or two, I give it to them.
The cannier ones will deny they are working on schoolwork when asked,
but it seems like there are always a few working on the exact same
kinds of problems.
Some of them are clearly in way over their heads and are working with
long copied scripts they have no understanding of, or want someone to
do their whole assignment from scratch. One recent student offered to
pay for someone to write code for him!
If you are currently teaching a class and giving homework assignments,
keep an eye on the recent submissions to that forum!
atrowbri
..like a large number of new media artists do professionally? Sounds
like this kid is ready for Ars Electronica/ISEA.
More seriously, though, I would not consider any of the behavior you
are describing as "cheating," I'd call it poor netiquette. I introduce
students to all of the relevant forums, Freenode IRC channels and any
source of help I can find. I also explain that it's very unlikely
anyone is going to figure out more than a couple lines for them, as
you describe, and, even then, usually only if they have their code to
post to show where things go wrong.
This is a bigger problem:
> Some of them are clearly in way over their heads and are working with
> long copied scripts they have no understanding of...
I have had at least three students insist on slogging through the same
Minim audio visualization example, trying to hammer it to suit there
needs while not particularly understanding what is occurring. Using
existing code is often a good approach, but only once you understand
some fundamentals of the language you are working with. Too often
students try to borrow too much of the code and it becomes not much
more than switching words in a foreign language document.
-at
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