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Cheating Dbq

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In this new age of technology, information is becoming more readily available to practically everyone. This revolution has raised one major concern for the students of our generation: that we will not be able to think at all. That this generation will rely so heavily on the ability to access information immediately that we subsequently lose the ability to think for ourselves. This will not happen, however. Although many believe the internet is spoiling our generation, the fact of the matter is that the internet actually enriches our education and aids us in coming up with more educated solutions.

At first glance it may seem that instant access to information causes more students to cheat and take other people's ideas as their own, and that makes it so much easier to become lazy thinkers. However, students have always had this potential. On the integrity of students raised in the new age, Aaron Walker, a literature teacher at Brown Deer High School, explains that even though the internet “creates more temptation” for new age students, the previous generations were not any better at avoiding cheating (Source E). If the internet is not available then they will just go to their classmates or to a …show more content…

Mr. Roemer (put credentials here) confirms that it helps students write more educated papers when they are allowed to bounce their ideas off of another person or compare what they have written with more reliable sources (source B). Sourcing other peoples’ work helps students become more informed so they are able to make a more cohesive argument. People in the same classroom are likely to have the same views because they come from the same area and live similar lives, so you may not find many contradicting views in the same school. With the addition of the internet, students can read different views on the same subject from people all over the world. Thus, they are able to form better arguments and form a more enriched

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