Student using iOS 15's Live Text to steal class notes gets an A+ at life.
Student using iOS 15's Live Text to steal class notes gets an A+ at life
Why take notes when you can just take photos?
A viral TikTok showing a student using iOS 15's Live Text to copy, and digitize, a classmate's notes has renewed interest in the mostly overlooked feature. Live Text allows iPhone users with an iPhone XS or newer (and the latest operating system) to take a photo of text, highlight that text, and then copy and paste it.
While officially unveiled by Apple in June of this year, Live Text was only recently made available as part of iOS 15.
At least one French student clearly wasted no time in taking advantage of it.
The video went viral on Twitter on Thursday, racking up thousands of retweets, after France-based writer Juan Buis tweeted it.
"students are starting to steal each other's notes with iOS 15 and it's... kind of genius," he wrote.
And while we can't independently verify that the video hasn't been altered in any way by the original poster, the depiction of Live Text's capabilities is accurate (we tested it out on a photo of a computer screen taken from a distance and it worked).
Indeed, while we'd recommend asking permission from another student before copying their notes, this use of Live Text appears to fit the definition of "work smart, not hard."
With this video going viral, we may soon find out if the student actually taking the notes agrees.
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Except the act of writing down the material helps you retain the knowledge.
ReplyDeleteSo you think cheating is smart Mashable? No wonder you keep repost from others.
ReplyDeleteDifferent people learn in different ways. Writing notes doesn’t help me, I miss the lecture. Listening to the lecture and then reviewing the lecture notes later cements it in my memory. I also get a better understanding of the concept.
ReplyDeleteI’m the same way
DeleteIf just we start teaching to share knowledge and points of view, we could raise better human beings and not just people looking for good grades.
ReplyDeleteShame on everyone
Wow sad ., cheating. Not smart, it is dumb. No wonder they really don't know how to think anddo things on their own using their own brain.
ReplyDeleteCheaters run the world tho so is he wrong? He will probs own a top hedge fund or become a politician and get rich off insider trades
Deletein retrospect I mean this as it’s how you cheat not if you cheat
DeletePlease explain how this is cheating?
DeleteTechnology can improve students life.
ReplyDeleteYesterday,I suggestedd my 9 yrs daughter to use voice memos app to read interely a 2 sheet poem she should had to learn by heart and then listen several times to set it in mind.
It worked.
I provide all my students with all my lecture notes. Having notes does not mean they are learning.
ReplyDeleteTotally agree. I was the kind of kid that rarely read my teachers' notes. :P
Delete“How to be an engineer that kills someone”
ReplyDeleteThis has been possible on Android phones for a while now lol
ReplyDeleteLaziness is the future
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Not smart at all. Totally makes you reliant on others.
ReplyDeleteI remember having a programmable graphing calculator the school let me use for high school, little did they know it had memory and the ability to type using third function. I stored an entire test in there after teacher said questions were exactly the same, no one even asked why I needed a graphing calculator for history class :P
ReplyDeleteThe world is seriously doomed.
ReplyDeleteI see apple's check cleared
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