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We have the same rule at the College where I teach - to cut down on
plagiarism but also so that the students maintain reasonable
handwriting. Our students sit Cambridge A level examinations, and
examination responses are hand written, so legible handwriting is
a necessity.

I join Rosa Maria in deploring those cases where the work of the
student who has computer access and can do fancy things by cut and
paste is marked so much more generously than the imaginative creative
but hand done and not so glitzy work of another student. I find this
particularly deplorable in a country like St Lucia where "level
playingfield" for computer access is a cruel lie.

And I DON'T see the problem being solved by handing out lime green
laptops. I believe we who teach need to go back to first principles
and ask ourselves what we are REALLY supposed to be doing, then ask
ourselves how ICT can help us to do THAT.
Hugs
Deirdre
Nearby Wed Nov 23 18:53:34 2005