Comments on: Aoyama Gakuin University forcing students to carry tracking devices

By: Marco Polo

Marco Polo — Sat, 30 May 2009 03:54:02 +0000

AP reports that Truants in Japan often fake attendance by getting friends to answer roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards. That’s verging on cheating since attendance is a key requirement for graduation here.

If attendance is a key requirement for graduation, then Japanese universities should give graduation certificates to all the desks and chairs – they have perfect attendance records!

How about requiring students to demonstrate they’ve actually learned something?

How about making courses more interesting?

Subsidization usually ends in tears.

By: mickey

mickey — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:07:46 +0000

if their gunna force ‘em have them wear those annoying anklets i mean i think their illegal but they’ll get over it plus it means that they can’t just leave it behind and as a bonus the people who moniter it can see what their up to XD

By: mickey

mickey — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:02:42 +0000

its a very rich school alot of japanese celebrities go there so its very prestigious

By: Haf

Haf — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:58:32 +0000

Wow, that’s incredibly stupid.
Or it would be, if it weren’t a big marketing thing by Apple.
Well, at least the students get some kind of smartphone for free, although there are better ones.

By: Aruma

Aruma — Sun, 17 May 2009 21:47:51 +0000

Japan has such nice cell phones! This is just a play by Apple to get people to use an iphone in Japan. I’m sure Japan’s top cell phone can run circles around the iphone.

By: Florian

Florian — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:13:19 +0000

a gps equipped laptop, always powered on?
i want to see the battery nutty ^^

By: Joergen

Joergen — Sun, 17 May 2009 15:09:49 +0000

Welcome human tracking…, how can people accept this?.

By: Nutty

Nutty — Sun, 17 May 2009 11:11:11 +0000

Will it be easier and cheaper to use Laptop instead?

By: jus

jus — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:26:08 +0000

i’m sure apple will cover all the costs, they just see it as an opportunity to advertise the iphone in japan.

By: tj

tj — Sun, 17 May 2009 10:20:44 +0000

just some lame attempt to advertise the iphone in japan

By: BS

BS — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:55:22 +0000

Then you just give it to your friend to take to class.

By: Ido

Ido — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:36:54 +0000

I wonder how the school’s going to be able to pay for all these…

By: jikku

jikku — Sun, 17 May 2009 09:34:27 +0000

The title of this article is misleading.

The students of Aoyama Gakuin’s School of Social Informatics are allowed to use iPhone for attendance reporting, lecture podcasting and having online examination.

They don’t have to carry it all the time and they don’t need permission to go off-campus. It just prevents 代返 (answering a roll call for another).

By: ll cool j

ll cool j — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:42:58 +0000

stupidest idea/biggest waste of money ever.

By: Jose Farrugia

Jose Farrugia — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:24:34 +0000

Even though it breaks a few privacy issues here and there, I wouldn’t mind getting one for free

By: lmshea

lmshea — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:22:33 +0000

The question would be:

If I were a student going off campus without permission, WHY would I take it with me? Leave the sucker in the dorm room!

By: Fowl

Fowl — Sun, 17 May 2009 08:08:11 +0000

Is truancy and issue for Universities in Japan?