AAaaahh....you may be living, or at least can remember the back breaking days of that 125-200 dollar back pack filled with text books. Bruised shoulders, aching back....
As technology advances, I've always wondered why little gizmos and gadgets can't just have uploads of the text book information, saving the backs and even lighten the load of those seeking to wrinkle their grey matter.
Well, reading headlines on Breitbart dot com led me to this little tidbit about a Japanese University that is giving it's students iphones. The purpose: to be a quick and easy line of communication between professor and student and...take role.
what, email just wasn't cutting it? I value my freedom...but value convenience. My thoughts are torn from being tethered to a professor that thinks the world perpetuates around the ONE topic they teach and the convenience of having efficiency at the tip of one's fingers.
Now -- riddle me this, if you'd give an iphone for something as simple as taking attendance, why wouldn't you use that same technology to alleviate weight of baggage? Novel idea...with it's ups and downs for that matter. What do you think?
The project, which is being tested ahead of its formal launch in June, involves 550 first and second year students and some staff of a department at Aoyama Gakuin University, which is located just outside Tokyo in Sagamihara city.
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