Today, CNN is running a story about the increasing use of iPods to cheat on school exams. I figure it's a slow news day, so I'll check it out. But please, CNN, educate us on exactly how one uses an iPod to cheat:
Some students use iPod-compatible voice recorders to record test answers in advance and them play them back, 16-year-old Mountain View junior Damir Bazdar said.
Others download crib notes onto the music players and hide them in the "lyrics" text files. Even an audio clip of the old "Schoolhouse Rock" take on how a bill makes it through Congress can come in handy during some American government exams.
Oh yes, the kids these days are apparently using Schoolhouse Rock to cheat on exams. And worse yet, the probably downloaded Schoolhouse Rock illegally!
Now then, far be it from me to point out the greater problem with our school system: that our government classes are no more sophisticated than a PBS cartoon. Since today's cartoons are apparently not smart enough to be used as cheating devices, I'd like to introduce the young and dishonest to a cartoon which made a huge impact in my life when I was their age: Animaniacs. Consider all their great contributions, which you can add to your iPod to help you on the next exam.
- On geography exams, kids can listen to either Wako Warner's "50 States and their Capitals", or Yako Warner's "Nations of the World"
- In biology class, load up your iPod with Brain feat. Pinky singing "The Parts of the Brain"
- In history class, they can load up on the Animaniacs's "US Presidents" song.
- Heck, they even do literature, and while your at it you can become cultured as well.
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