I have been thinking about continuing the debate, but it is April 2nd in Australia...
I did write "check the date" at the end of my email, though! Sorry all, I had more fun reading the responses than writing my silly April's fool. Have a great W-E, Philippe On Apr 1, 2011, at 1:20 PM, Jeffrey Sessler wrote: > That's just not right. These people are adults, and as such, should be able > to decide on their own if they are going to attend class. The college is not > their parents, and it's not a daycare. This is a behavior issue with needs > addressing, and disabling the technology is not the answer. What's next, > disable WiFi if that don't take out the trash from their dorm room, or decide > not to shower, or protest some decision the campus made, etc? Will you > disable WiFi except in the stadium during a game, so as to force students to > attend? > > Something wicked this way comes, and it's at UTK. > > I'm curious, does your honor code, guide to student life, etc. state that > attending class is mandatory? If not, how are you able to levy sanctions > against a student for not attending (disable WiFi)? > > I can see it now... Student doesn't show up for class. Said student is in > trouble, but can't the necessary help (send email, make a skype call, etc.) > because none of his/her devices can connect to the network. Student becomes > seriously ill, or dies, etc. because of this new policy, and the college > faces a huge lawsuit. > > Don't get me wrong, it's an interesting technological solution, but it's > still wrong in my book. If a student is not attending class, your dean of > students needs to bring the student in for a discussion. > > Jeff > > > >>>> "Hanset, Philippe C" <phan...@utk.edu> 4/1/2011 9:22 AM >>> > All, > > University of Tennessee has had some class attendance issues lately, > especially with Sophomores. > We came up with a location based wireless solution that could fix this issue. > We have built a database of rooms surrounding Access-Points that we correlate > with a class roster. Basically if a student is supposed to be in room x at > time y, > our filtering only allows the student access to a set of access points > surrounding that room during that time. > No wireless elsewhere. > Dormitories are included in the algorithm. > > If you are doing something similar, we would like to know some of the caveats. > > Thanks, > > Philippe Hanset > University of TN > (Constituent Group Leader of Wireless-LAN@educause) > > (what's the date?) > ********** > 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/. > ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
