Apple stands to win as well, hooking more young consumers with decades of technology pur chases ahead of them. The lone losers, some fear, could be professors.
Students already have laptops and cell phones, of course, but the newest devices can take class distractions to a new level. They practically beg a user to ignore the long-suffering professor strug gling to pass on accumulated wisdom from the front of the room a prospect that teachers find most irritating and students view as, well, inevitable.
When it gets a little boring, I might pull it out, acknowledged Naomi Pugh, a first-year student at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Term., referring to her new iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet over a campus wireless network. She speculated that professors might try even harder to make classes interesting if they were to compete with the devices.
Experts see a movement toward the use of mobile technology in education, though they say it is in its infancy as professors try to come up with useful applications. Providing powerful hand held devices is sure to fuel debates over the role of technology in higher education.
We think this is the way the future is going to work, said Kyle Dickson, co-director of re search and the mobile learning initiative at Abilene Christian University in Texas, which has bought more than 600 iPhones and 300 iPods for students entering this fall.
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