Monday 21 April 2014

You can become careless!!!

A student walks to me and is very upset. Her second Semester Masters exam is due in next one hour. She is upset because she has misplaced her Hall ticket. She tried to look for it everywhere but she could not trace it. Her last hope was the exam hall and it is locked so she is waiting in despair, not able to know what to do. As a pro-student teacher that i am known to be, my first response is its ok. Since now hall tickets are online generated through digitaluniversity portal, we can generate one more and since its digital unlike its original one and only avatar!! She feels better. The people in the scene are HOD-Head of the Department, Suprintendent of Examination, hall supervisor and student herself. Since ours is a single-site programme, my response was valid that as we know that student, there should not be a problem. But no doubt this means anyone can intervene and create official documents any time!! We both set out to generate a Hall-ticket.My department log in did not work. Interestingly when she logged in from her id, she could generate a hall ticket for herself ONE more time!!!! Just imgine, i tried saying that this could be dangerous since anyone can generate hall ticket provided they know log in and hacking is not a very complex method in today's digital world. She did not understand what i was saying. She is not a careless student. i meet many who download-copy-paste submit with or without any understanding of concept of plagarism. STEALING can be another word. Digital environment is making us more and more casual and careless. As a teacher it is becoming more and more challenging to make student understand the non-digital realities of life. But dont become careless please since connectivity is not a forever thing and life can not be lived digitally.

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