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　　As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions towar

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问题 　　As you can see in the two excerpts below, people hold different opinions toward whether students should be allowed to use apps to share answers to their assignments. Do you believe that these apps will help students’ learning, or will encourage cheating?
　　Read these excerpts carefully and write a response of no less than 300 words, in which you should:
　　1. summarize the opinions from both sides, and then
　　2. comment on the effectiveness of the two excerpts.
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答案 Excerpt 1
                                Will New Math App Facilitate Cheating or Learning?
                                                Stephen Veliz, TLH blogger
　　PhotoMath, which bills itself as a "smart camera calculator," is a new app for iOS and Windows smartphones that utilizes the phone’s camera to solve math problems for users. I don’t often get overly excited about new apps these days, but this thing is truly amazing. My immediate reaction was, of course, to lament over why this tool wasn’t available as I struggled through high school math.
　　Once you get past the coolness factor, PhotoMath should force us to deal with some fundamental questions about the use of tools like this in our schools. I shared the app with a group of my 11th grade students this morning and their immediate reaction was elation over how easy their homework would be from now on.
　　But once we talked about the app’s potential for a little while, students began to appreciate PhotoMath as a tool that could help them learn. You see, in addition to providing the user with a solution, PhotoMath also provides all of the steps that go into solving a problem. That could be extremely powerful for struggling students, if used correctly.
　　So how do we define that fine line between cheating and proper use of the tools that emerging technologies provide? I think that can be answered in the same way that I would answer questions about many tech tools that students are using, whether or not we as educators approve.
　　We can either shut our classroom door to the tool — as many have done with smartphones — or we can embrace the tool, incorporate it into what we are doing and teach students how to use the tool in a responsible and productive way. But no matter what our attitude is, students will be using them anyway.
Excerpt 2
                            A Chinese Internet Giant Has an App to Help Students Cheat on Their Homework.
　　Chinese teens have it pretty rough with schoolwork—students in Shanghai spend an average of nearly three hours per weeknight on homework. So it’s no wonder that many smartphone-wielding students are turning to technology to lessen their load, including an app developed by the Internet search giant Baidu that lets them crowdsource their homework questions.
　　The company’s mobile app "Homework Helper," launched this year, has been downloaded at least 5 million times. Users can either take a photo of their homework questions or type them in by hand. Other users who answer the questions in online forums are rewarded with virtual e-coins when their answers are deemed correct. The coins can be used to buy everything from photo frames to iPhones and Lenovo laptops.
　　A staff member for Homework Helper said through the company’s messaging service that the app’s answers were correct around 80% of the time. Asked about the dubious morality of the app, the staff admitted: "I think this is a kind of cheating. Basically it creates a platform where students can buy answers while some others can sell answers."
　　Students, unsurprisingly, seem to like apps like this, but parents are less enthusiastic. "Once she gets stuck on a problem, she turns to these apps for answers and loses the ability to think independently," said one mother of a middle school student. Teachers also voice their concern. "Although we welcome high-technology in education, this is a too clever way to use it. More or less it will encourage students to LOOK FOR answers, not to CREATE their own answers," comments a teacher from a prestigious high school in Shanghai.
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