iPhone watched Students

Students attending a Japanese University received a special gift when the University decided to give away the iphone for free. There is of course one catch - the iphone will be used to mark the student’s class attendance.

Some staff were initially sceptical suggesting that it would not work but GPS technology in the iphone is being used to make sure that students cannot mark their attendance from home. The data is checked regularly to locate which router the students have logged into as well. When entering a class the students simply type their ID and class numbers into a specially designed application installed on the device, and it records their movements.

This is being trialled on a group of 550 people at Aoyama Gakuin University before its official release in June this year.

The University insists that the use of the iphone will be far wider than just student attendance. It will be used to ease communication between Professors and students, with the phone set to deliver pod-casts of lectures to student’s, and keep them updated with changes to their assignments and timetables.

Any fears that the University is breaching the student’s rights to privacy have been squashed, with the participating students themselves stating that they were happy with the iphone and its applications. Some students are even stating that it makes their time at the university easier. This trial could mark the beginning of a new trend in education world-wide.

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