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"If I ask a question in class, all the students stop thinking and turn to watch the student squirm," says Mr. Junkin, a physics professor at Erskine College, in South Carolina. [...]
So Mr. Junkin, who is also the college's dean of learning and technology, developed his own computer program that allows him to send out a question from a laptop at the front of the room to the whole class. Using oversized cell phones -- those with personal-digital-assistant features -- his students pick up the question and choose or scribble out their best answer with tiny styluses.
After a few moments, when the answers come back to Mr. Junkin's laptop, he knows who understands the day's topic and who doesn't, and he gets an instant sense of how he should alter his lesson plan before he continues the lecture.
Craig Kinley, a director of engineering and network operations for Sprint, won't offer financial details about the deal, but he says that the phones retail for about $400. He says that his company will monitor the students' cell-phone use over the next year to determine whether the venture is worthwhile.
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Originally posted by dick-richardson
Depending on the deal he got with those phones, they might be better served using a visor solo with the wireless ethernet module.
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Under that deal, the college would get the use of free cell phones, and the cell-phone companies would get an opportunity to cultivate young customers.
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Either way, it's a good idea.
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