Comments on: Abilene Christian University students will get iPhones, iPod touches this fall http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/27/abilene-christian-university-students-will-get-iphones-ipod-touches-this-fall/ Gadgets, gear and computer hardware. Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:54:08 -0500 hourly 1 By: Bill http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/27/abilene-christian-university-students-will-get-iphones-ipod-touches-this-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-603448 Bill Sun, 02 Mar 2008 03:29:49 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/27/abilene-christian-university-students-will-get-iphones-ipod-touches-this-fall/#comment-603448 Grumpy Camper, that's exactly what we were thinking. If these are part of the social fabric as well, it actually makes the education part easier since it insures that students have them and that they're ready to use. The biggest problem with most mobile learning programs is that you can't really count on ubiquity because there's too often not a reason for students to keep up the devices... Thanks for your comments... Grumpy Camper, that’s exactly what we were thinking. If these are part of the social fabric as well, it actually makes the education part easier since it insures that students have them and that they’re ready to use. The biggest problem with most mobile learning programs is that you can’t really count on ubiquity because there’s too often not a reason for students to keep up the devices…

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]]> By: Grumpy Camper http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/27/abilene-christian-university-students-will-get-iphones-ipod-touches-this-fall/comment-page-1/#comment-601407 Grumpy Camper Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:57:30 +0000 http://www.crunchgear.com/2008/02/27/abilene-christian-university-students-will-get-iphones-ipod-touches-this-fall/#comment-601407 So, I went out and watched their video... http://www.acu.edu/connected and I think they are ok with students using them for all kinds of things - both in and out of classroom. And you know what -- that actually is a brilliant idea. If students live with these things, they will bring them to class and that is a lot more than can be said for "clickers" and other so called educational technologies the text book companies and software giants like Blackboard want to shove into every backpack. So, I went out and watched their video… http://www.acu.edu/connected and I think they are ok with students using them for all kinds of things – both in and out of classroom. And you know what — that actually is a brilliant idea. If students live with these things, they will bring them to class and that is a lot more than can be said for “clickers” and other so called educational technologies the text book companies and software giants like Blackboard want to shove into every backpack.

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