blog #6

who ever thought phones would be allowed in a classroom. As the year's past by technology grows rapidly allowing us to do the impossible. It use to be that you would have to go home to your dest top to check your email, to play a game you would have to go to an arcade to play one. Now from the simple touch of your finger to your cell phone, could have you web surfing on the drop of a dime. Many people would think of a cell phone as a major distraction especially in a classroom. Now these phone are so advance that you can do your homework in class . At the New Jersey Institute of Technology Tyler Auten was one of nine students learning to program iphone applications, half way through the semester he thought up of two new applications with the information learned in class then sold them on apple online for $0.99 each. Elliot Soloway a professor in computer science and engineering at Michigan, Say's that he is going his course in the winter. The information being taught in these class's are allowing students to create new and unusual application's. Auten also said that the stupider the application the more sales you get. Well on a different note Al Gore say's should schools be weird to the Internet. I think school's should definitely be weird to the Internet, the Internet has so many benefits it ables everyone to have access to unlimited information. i don't see any bed coming out of the Internet in school with blocks an security systems. On a college level it would be one of your best resource to gain use full information. Without the Internet our world wouldn't have been able to bring our school's out of the 20 th century.