{"id":444,"date":"2007-10-10T22:02:39","date_gmt":"2007-10-11T03:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/10\/the-iphone-and-education\/"},"modified":"2007-10-10T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2007-10-11T03:04:42","slug":"the-iphone-and-education","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/10\/the-iphone-and-education\/","title":{"rendered":"The iPhone and Education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" width=\"240\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1096\/1437543376_218b6a7d02_m.jpg\" height=\"180\" style=\"width: 240px; height: 180px\" \/>If you have some time to kill, click over to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eschoolnews.com\/news\/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=7314\">eSchool News<\/a> and read about educators that are looking at ways of using the iPhone in school.<\/p>\n<p>The article sites new potential applications on the iPhone: world weather, encyclopedia, simulations, widgets, blogs, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Consider the cost of implementing a project like this. The iPhone\u00a0is $400 even after the $200 drop last month.\u00a0 The least expensive plan\u00a0is $60 per month with a two year agreement required.\u00a0 That adds up to $1840 for a portable computer with a screen the size of a deck of cards.<\/p>\n<p>If you can get past the cost, consider this.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know of a school in Ohio that permits cell phone usage during school.\u00a0 Who will stop the kids from texting all the time?\u00a0 And I won&#8217;t even mention that there will be no way to filter web content on each of these cell phones that can easily bypass the schools wireless network.<\/p>\n<p>For the same\u00a0money, buy everyone a high end laptop.\u00a0 It will do more and fit into the environment better.\u00a0 I thought the iPhone hype was over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have some time to kill, click over to eSchool News and read about educators that are looking at ways of using the iPhone in school. The article sites new potential applications on the iPhone: world weather, encyclopedia, simulations, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/2007\/10\/10\/the-iphone-and-education\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[336,340,2],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-edtech","tag-edtech","tag-education","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.trustyetc.com\/trustyblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}