Two articles I might include in 516 this coming term, if I decide to have some kinda discussion in there about hand-held devices:
- How the iPhone could reboot education is from WIRED about a project at Abilene Christian University where all the first year students and most of the faculty have iPhones and use them in different and kinda cool ways. This article has links to other iPhone and education (sorta) articles.
- AT&T takes blame, even for the iPhone’s faults is a NYTimes article that more or less makes the claim that the problem with the iPhone and connectivity is not AT&T but the phone itself. I think this is interesting because I’ve said to plenty of people that I love my phone but hate AT&T; perhaps I ought to give a little less hate.
In both cases, it seems to me it begs the question if we ought to call these devices “phones” anymore or something else. But like I said, a potential topic for 516 for the winter, which I’m hoping to start planning and/or thinking about in earnest very soon.
I’ve been wondering about the term “phone” for a while now too. Mini-computers w/ a phone app.