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As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether students should be allowed to use apps t
As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether students should be allowed to use apps t
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2019-11-02
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As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether students should be allowed to use apps to share answers to their assignments. Do you believe that these apps will help student’s learning, or will encourage cheating?
Write an article of NO LESS THAN 300 words, in which you should:
1. summarize the opinions from both sides;
2. give your comment.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Excerpt 1
Will New Math App Facilitate Cheating or Learning?
Stephen Veliz, TLH blogger
PhotoMath, which bills itself as a "smart camera calculator, " is a new app for iOS and Windows smartphones that utilizes the phone’s camera to solve math problems for users. I don’t often get overly excited about new apps these days, but this thing is truly amazing. My immediate reaction was, of course, to lament over why this tool wasn’t available as I struggled through high school math.
Once you get past the coolness factor, PhotoMath should force us to deal with some fundamental questions about the use of tools like this in our schools. I shared the app with a group of my 11th grade students this morning and their immediate reaction was elation over how easy their homework would be from now on.
But once we talked about the app’s potential for a little while, students began to appreciate PhotoMath as a tool that could help them learn. You see, in addition to providing the user with a solution, PhotoMath also provides all of the steps that go into solving a problem. That could be extremely powerful for struggling students, if used correctly.
So how do we define that fine line between cheating and proper use of the tools that emerging technologies provide? I think that can be answered in the same way that I would answer questions about many tech tools that students are using, whether or not we as educators approve.
We can either shut our classroom door to the tool — as many have done with smartphones — or we can embrace the tool, incorporate it into what we are doing and teach students how to use the tool in a responsible and productive way. But no matter what our attitude is, students will be using them anyway.
Excerpt 2
A Chinese Internet Giant Has an App to Help Students Cheat on Their Homework
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http://qz.com/234712/a-chinese-internet-giant-has-an-app-to-help-students-cheat-on-their-homework/
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Chinese teens have it rough pretty with schoolwork—students in Shanghai spend an average of nearly three hours per weeknight on homework. So it’s no wonder that many smartphone-wielding students are turning to technology to lessen their load, including an app developed by internet search giant Baidu that lets them crowdsource their homework questions.
The company’s mobile app "Homework Helper, " launched this year, and has been downloaded at least 5 million times. Users can either take a photo of their homework questions or type them in by hand. Other users who answer the questions in online forums are rewarded with virtual e-coins when their answers are deemed correct. The coins can be used to buy everything from photo frames to iPhones and Lenovo laptops.
A staff member for Homework Helper said through the company’s messaging service that the app’s answers were correct around 80% of the time. Asked about the dubious morality of the app, the staffer admitted: "I think this is a kind of cheating. Basically it creates a platform where students can buy answers while some others can sell answers. "
Students, unsurprisingly, seem to like apps like this, but parents are less enthusiastic. "Once she gets stuck on a problem, she turns to these apps for answers and loses the ability to think independently, " said one mother of a middle school student. Teachers also voice their concern. "Although we welcome high-technology in education, this is a too clever way to use it. More or less it will encourage students to LOOK FOR answers, not to CREATE their own answers, " comments a teacher from a prestigious high school in Shanghai.
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Every day thousands of apps are created, sold or pushed to users, some of which aim at assisting students’ study. The society reacted very differently to these apps. PhotoMath, an app that provides math solutions has triggered much debate about high-tech tools in classroom. Students like it, but adults think of it as cheating. A sensible solution, according to Excerpt 1, may be just accepting it. However, Excerpt 2 presented widespread negative reaction to a similar app in China. The general public are concerned about the app named Homework Helper because of possible cheating and keeping students from working hard. These two excerpts present different attitudes, and seem to imply that PhotoMath is better received than Homework Helper, but the fact may be different. Such a conclusion may be due largely to the different attitudes of these two writers. Taking an objective tone, the first writer mainly states a fact, and discusses the influence in an inconclusive way: whatever attitude teachers take, students will use these apps. The writer seems to imply that it is meaningless to moralize these apps, and what is important is to help students use it properly. The second excerpt is more problematic, because the writer does not take a neutral point at all, and make efforts to screen information for a one-sided report. For example, he provided only the voices from people who may be against the tools, but almost no positive voice is allowed. If he had interviewed some students, the finding would be quite different. For this reason, the second excerpt is not as convincing as the first one. To conclude, modern technology, with learning apps as typical examples, is making its way into many aspects of human life. We need to be open-minded, stay calm and learn to apply them to the benefit of our central task in various fields.
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