{"id":87850,"date":"2017-08-02T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2017-08-02T12:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techvibes.com\/?p=87850"},"modified":"2017-08-02T09:38:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-02T13:38:24","slug":"mobile-devices-increase-cheating-and-cyberbullying-at-school-survey-finds","status":"publish","type":"magazine","link":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/magazine\/mobile-devices-increase-cheating-and-cyberbullying-at-school-survey-finds","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Devices Increase Cheating and Cyberbullying at School, Survey Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Students are using their mobile devices to cheat at school often, a new survey from security software firm <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcafee.com\/ca\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">McAfee<\/a> found.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly half of students have observed a peer using a connected mobile device inside a classroom to cheat on an exam or assignment, while one quarter admit to the act themselves, according to the survey.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s not the only way students are cheating: 23 per cent of the students successfully got around the cyber restrictions put in place by their school to access banned content\u2014primarily social media such as YouTube, Messenger, and Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Cheating is one problem mobile devices have amplified at school; bullying\u2014specifically of the digital variety\u2014is another. 21 per cent of female teenagers and 14 per cent of female teenagers have been cyber bullied at school\u2014again, largely through social media channels.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the infographic below for more insights from the McAfee survey.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-87907\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13100244\/url.jpeg\" alt=\"url\" width=\"600\" height=\"2513\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13100244\/url.jpeg 489w, https:\/\/d3ghupt9z9s6o0.cloudfront.net\/app\/uploads\/2017\/08\/13100244\/url-768x3216.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students are using their mobile devices to cheat at school often, a new survey from security software firm McAfee found. Nearly half of students have observed a peer using a connected mobile device inside a classroom to cheat on an exam or assignment, while one quarter admit to the act themselves, according to the survey. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55555,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[891,890,121,889],"magazine-region":[],"magazine-series":[],"magazine-topic":[],"class_list":["post-87850","magazine","type-magazine","status-publish","hentry","category-News","tag-cheating","tag-cyberbullying","tag-mobile","tag-school"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/87850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/magazine"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/55555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine\/87850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87850"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-region","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-region?post=87850"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-series?post=87850"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brainstation.io\/wp\/api\/wp\/v2\/magazine-topic?post=87850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}