Palm Computer

• It is: a shirt-pocket sized, hand-held person computer/organizer
• It can: store and display information
• Beam information to another similar machine across the classroom or into a hall
• Watch out for: students checking their pockets, purses or laps 
  
• Pointing at other students to beam information
• These can be easily hidden in baggy clothing
• Prevention tip: Tell students in advance that palm computers will not be Allowed in class during tests and will be confiscated

• It is: a portable, hand-held calculator for science and math calculations
• It can: do a broad range of math applications from algebra to calculus
• Do interactive geometry, symbolic manipulation, stats, and 3-D graphing
• Display text as well
• Watch out for: students who do poorly in class and very well on the test
• Students pointing to transfer information electronically
• Prevention tip: have a classroom set of simple calculators for student use.
• Do not allow students to use calculators from home on the test.

Pager or pager watch

• It is: a small, wearable message receiver
• It can: send or receive messages and e-mail
• Watch out for: students who look frequently at their watch
• Prevention tip: Inform students in advance about pagers not being allowed in class.
• Warn them that these pagers will be confiscated if used during testing.