Blocking technology usually just creates more problems than it solves. Imagine an emergency on campus and the fallout from students being unable to use their cell phones. This is a job for administrators to do what they do best.
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 2:47 PM, heath.barnhart <heath.barnh...@washburn.edu> wrote: > I'm going to have to go with Jethro on this one. When I was in class > generally you were warned at the beginning of the semester. Following that, > a call during usually resulted in either being asked to leave or being > humiliated by the professor, or both. Also Neil brings up another point in a > later post, what's to keep them from just jumping on a regular 3G network. I > think this should be a non-technical issue. A technical response is really a > waste of time. > > Heath > > Jethro R Binks wrote: >> >> 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/. >> > > > -- > Heath Barnhart > Asst. Systems and Networking Admin > Information Systems and Services > Washburn University > Topeka, KS 66621 > > ********** > Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent > Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. > -- /rf ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
