IHT: Wireless: In Japan, classroom bane becomes teachers' pet
When cellphones began to spread among teenagers in the late 1990s, it became something of a teacher's nightmare, and nowhere more so than in rules-oriented Japan...But recently, there has been a change of heart among some Japanese educators. In fact, some teachers at universities and high schools are requiring that their pupils show up in class with a mobile phone. Students of Keizo Nagaoka, a professor at Waseda University's campus in Tokorozawa, near Tokyo, are asked to bring their Internet-enabled cellphones to the classroom to respond to questions posed via an interactive computer system that displays the results on the phone's screen...more...
