Temptation and the cellphones

You probably remember, as I do, those times where cellphones were not a regular object. We were glad to have at least a phone in ur homes but cellphones were probably a fancy object that only the fortunate people owned, something to dream about perhaps. I can recall the exact moment when my best friend came to my house holding her first cellphone. The device was quite big with a very small black and white screen. It was absolutely incredible that she owned a cellphone being only seventeen years old! She was the first one in our class to posses one but pretty soon we discovered how the personal phone had become a fashion.

Almost ten years later it is absolutely inconceivable to find someone without a cellphone. Everyone has at least one. Companies are creating even more advance phones every time, so advanced that it is no longer necessary to resort to a computer in order to use internet.

These apparatus are fully equipped with whenever you need. And if you have in the palm of your hand all the information you need I wonder… Should cellphones be allowed in a class? Well.. why not? But my concern is, should we allow students to make use of their cellphones while they are in an exam? Are they to be trusted having the temptation of looking for the information there are required in their phones?

I had the chance to witness a misuse of these devices, someone copying from the cellphone while I wracked my brain in order answer correctly. I felt so irritated I could not stop thinking about it for a while.

In any case, I believe the use of cellphones in the middle of an exam should be punished somehow. I have discover that copying from the phone is just another way of cheating, a simpler one.