Free iPhone school comes under fire
Fancy a free iPhone? If you’re lucky enough to be a student at the right school, you might just be in line for one. One house of learning has just begun trialling the free Apple smartphones for its students in a counter-intuitive bid to stop them procrastinating on their mobiles in class. Will it work? Not everyone thinks so.
In our day, we were lucky to get free milk, but a class of 30 students at Gumley House Convent School in West London is being given the free iPhone 3GS models until the end of the academic year next Summer.
Instead of banning phones, the aim is to encourage the kids to use their free iPhones in class to aid their learning. How the school envisions a platform which offers a myriad of TV streaming and tower defense gaming apps being used for solely educational purposes is anyone’s guess though.
The students will only have to pay for calls they make on their free iPhones, with data bills being covered by Brentford City Learning Centre. But unsurprisingly, not everyone is too happy about the experiment.
Katie Ivens from the Campaign for Real Education said that “mobile phones have quite rightly been banned from many classrooms as they prove to be a distraction. The case for learning by computer has not been proved at allâ€.
What do you think? Is it enlightened? Unwise? We’re not sure, but we know we envy the kids toting free iPhones right now.
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