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8th September 2008    Current rating: 

Topic: Technology

Now in an interesting flip side of our previous post, BusinessWeek’s Olga Kharif reported on a US college that provided all of its first year students with iPhones:
 
Abilene Christian University will hand out Apple's iPhone 3G smartphone to two-thirds of this year's entering class of 950 freshmen. Students will be expected to use the devices to brainstorm ideas and get virtual handouts and podcasts during class. Instructors will use them for such tasks as monitoring attendance.
 
 "This is a new platform for learning, in the same way a laptop or a desktop was a new platform," says William Rankin, co-director of mobile learning research at the school in Abilene, Texas.
 
 There are two factors that make this situation more favorable- the first being that these are college-age students, and the second is that the school provided the whole class with the devices. This creates a setting where the students are of a more responsible age and have equal access to the smartphone. Additionally, the iPhone is being integrated into the learning environment which leads to it being more of an enhancement to learning than a distraction.
 
To this learning trend we give a “thumbs up!” (Now let’s make sure these devices are protected…!)
 

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