Rick Ayers, a Berkeley High School journalism teacher, said the incident speaks to society's capitalist economy. They're looking at the model of the stock market where anything goes. Administrators also plan to change the code more frequently. It is na ve to think that someone will graduate from high school with a foundation of loose ethics and just stop. But cheating is not limited to computer hackers.
Students can download papers off the Web with the push of a button.
Teachers often do not recognize e-plagiarism, however, because they are not as Internet savvy as students, said McCabe. Despite many teachers' fears, McCabe thinks Internet resources do not increase academic dishonesty - he said they change methods of cheating. The Web has created a substitution affect more than anything else because it is easy and more anonymous. High school senior Julie of Ohio said there are too many websites that teachers have to follow if they want to stop e-plagiarism. I have these two friends who lifted the same history paper off the Internet and turned it into the same teacher.