I agree and think it's nonsense. I don't like the idea of banning wireless in classrooms either but that is another rat hole!
-Emerson -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jethro R Binks Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 1:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [WIRELESS-LAN] Blocking iPhones On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Emerson Parker wrote: > The requests I'm seeing is from teachers who don't what people on their > phones in class. Why are you singling out iPhones? This sounds like yet another case of technology being asked to provide a solution to a social or political problem. And that is generally a recipe if not for disaster, then bad feeling. How about, and here's me just thinking completely off the top of my head for the first idea that comes to mind... the teacher asks people to turn their phones off? If the request is regularly ignored, then local rules with defined sanctions should be implemented and enforced. Jethro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jethro R Binks Computing Officer, IT Services, University Of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
