Axel's Normal School

This first episode is about the history of "studies" into Academic Dishonesty - cheaters, if you want to say it like that. I take a contrary stance on the importance of catching cheaters in the classroom (as in I think it's quite unimportant) and argue that people who do take it seriously have deleterious attitudes towards students in general and towards education as a whole. People see the students as cops and want to turn teachers into cops and universities into courthouses. If they don't think that, they want to turn "academic dishonesty" into a social problem that contributes to our dying society. To me, these are both faulty, at best, ideas, and thinking like this as educators or education policy makers is what actually makes education and society worse. All the articles I read out loud, and many others I read behind the scenes for research, can be found here with annotations: https://tinyurl.com/Episode1WCAB You can also listen to this episode on my Soundcloud: https://tinyurl.com/soundcloudep1 Follow me on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AxelMaiz