http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/ Engadget Comments for London school children to get free loaner iPhones in experimental, educational trial http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
Still, go die in a fire started by your KIRF batteries. ]]>Dec 9th 2009 9:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 10th 2009 4:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/...how? 12 to 18 year olds having iPhones is hardly a new thing. e-bullying? really? get a grip. what I find more interesting is that they're basically just handing out free iPod touches, which have limited educational use, considering that the vast majority of apps that that demographic is going to use are going to be time wasting instead of productivity fostering things. For that matter, why not give them iPod touches instead of iphones with phone capability disabled?

the whole thing reeks of trying to be 'down wiv da yoof']]>Dec 9th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
I should know, I AM one.]]>Dec 9th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
Actually, it's WORSE in catholic schools, much worse. Maybe it's the uniforms they are forced to wear, or the constant feeling of guilt smooshed into them from an early age by a pedophile priest, but catholic school students are often much more mean and get into much more trouble than public school kids.
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e-bullying? There's an app for that. ]]>Dec 9th 2009 9:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
so if they're going to use iphones solely to use the apps (i assume), why not use ipod touches? it could save a lot of money too.]]>Dec 9th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
A brand new 32gb iPhone 3GS is 299, same price as an iPod touch of the same size...the cost comes from the crazy data and unlimited txt charges per month...an iPod touch costs 0 per month]]>Dec 9th 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
The 32Gb iPhone is more like 6-700 dollars, without a plan. ]]>Dec 9th 2009 8:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/This is bound to fail. If I take my laptop to class I just end up screwing around on the internet and not paying attention. If I don't take it, I screw around on my phone sometimes. Most of my friends are like this.
Any kind of communication device in a classroom will hurt a student's learning ability, not strengthen it.]]>Dec 9th 2009 3:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
Completely agree. I used to think my laptop was there to help me take notes faster, it's not. I look around during class and the vast majority of students with laptops are not paying attention and just on the internet. Then you have the phone section. They're either on their phones texting or, with the increase in the iPhone, again just wasting time on apps or the internet.

Laptops can have a place in the education world if used correctly, but I strongly believe ipods, iphones, and any other cell phone don't, whether they're there for the apps or not.

Any electronic used in a child's educational world were surely be used for the wrong measures. This trial will failllll.]]>Dec 9th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/I agree.

To be honest, I think it's a fail. I got a laptop for my final year of schooling and only used it at home. Those who took theirs to school didn't for very long - it became to distracting. My laptop had 4GB RAM, massive HDD, 802.11n etc, but no dedicated graphics card - it kept me off games when I needed to be working.

]]>Dec 9th 2009 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 3:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
Mother: What did you learn at school today dear?
Daughter: I learnt how to be a consumer whore!
Mother: And how!]]>Dec 9th 2009 5:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/That certainly is the McDonalds business model.]]>Dec 9th 2009 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 8:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
Those aren't customers.

Their wealthy parents are the customers, they're just the customers' whiney puppetmasters.]]>Dec 10th 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/]]>Dec 9th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/iPod Touch. No such thing as an iTouch.]]>Dec 9th 2009 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
It really is the Jesus phone!]]>Dec 9th 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 6:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/]]>Dec 9th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 5:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 10th 2009 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 10th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 5:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/
What's that?]]>Dec 9th 2009 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 6:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 9th 2009 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/09/london-school-children-to-get-free-loaner-iphones-in-experimenta/Dec 10th 2009 2:42AM