Cheating via Google?(Tech Knowledge)(Brief article)

Teacher Nancy Dean loves to watch as her students enthusiastically use technology during their assignments. A recent class discussion about the Jean Merrill novel The Toothpaste Millionaire (Houghton, 1972), for example, had her sixth graders at Aire Libre Elementary School in Phoenix, AZ, excitedly beaming ideas to one another using handheld devices as they considered the book's main theme. "I think of it as peer learning," she says of allowing students to, in effect, chat with one another while doing their work. "It's another method, something novel."

But letting students use a computer or access the Internet while taking a test? That's apparently what some schools…