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>>lewisf+(OP)
I love how the answer given to this problem is more funding. Such an indication of what's wrong with modern education. This entire article is exposing the TI monopoly on calculators, getting 85-90% profit margins, and our solution is to strike to get taxpayer money to keep paying for the things? We should encourage competition.

Consider - an app that replicates this functionality on the phone, but tracks if the user at any point closes the app. This then is reported to the teacher so the teacher knows if there was any cheating.

>>julien+t21
Every attempt to prevent cheating in that way is a huge pain full of edge cases and false positives, and is usually ineffective. Would be better to either embrace technology and accept that the internet is a possible source of help or go manual/mechanical, but trying to artificially limit a cell phone or laptop is doomed from the start.

t. Student who’s had to deal with lockdown browser and similar school-specific proprietary malware.

>>jsf01+ou1
Why is using the internet even considered as cheating? After all school is supposed to teach children to find knowledge they want for themselves, and learning to use internet for that is much more useful than learning to use obscure pieace of a technology from 80s, which is not used anywhere else.