Criteria A (2)

This portfolio addresses the issue of universities relaying on technology, such as the iPhone and the iPods to “homework alerts, answer in-class surveys, quizzes and to check their meal and account balances.” (Provenzano, 2008) It gives the students a chance to miss school or specific lectures and ask their friends to send them a summary of the lecture through the iPhone. It is estimated that “2.14 billion” people use the mobile phone (or has a subscription) around the world. (wikipedia, 2008) Therefore the ethical issue in this case is that people will prefer studying from home and relaying on electronics to transmit the necessary information from the lectures to them through the iPhone or the IPod. This issue is very important and critical especially in this day and age, because in the 21st century there is a rapid annual increase of young teenagers and adults using advance technology to receive daily updates whch has surpassed the news and mail, it has reached a point were universities are relaying on mobiles to communicate on a daily basis with their students, giving them constant updates and indirectly telling them that they can miss school and still receive update of what they missed.