“A Japanese University is giving away iPhones to its students to use the phones’ GPS functionality to catch students who skip classes. The University claims students currently fake attendance by having other students answer for them during rollcall, they also said that while this can be abused by giving other students the phone, they are much less likely to do this due to the personal information, such as email, a phone generally contains.”

via Slashdot | University Gives Away iPhones To Curb Truancy.

RTFL this is a wonderful way to draw students into a system that isn’t serving their needs. Don’t examine the 18th century structure of schooling. Give ’em an iPhone.

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