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iPhones to monitor kids’ attendance

Hundreds of students of a top Japanese university are getting sat-nav iPhones, so that it’s easier to track them down in case they skip classes.

Usually, students fake attendance by getting friends to answer proxy roll-call or hand in signed attendance cards.

But now, Aoyama Gakuin University in Tokyo has found a solution to reel in students back into classes—they are giving Apple’s iPhone 3G to 550 students in its School of Social Informatics, which studies the use of internet and computer technology in society.

Not only the hi-tech gadget will work as a tool for studies, but the GPS (a satellite navigation system) present in the phone can check on its whereabouts automatically.

And thus, it could act as a convenient way to prove attendance, reports The Daily Express.

However, there is one glitch—truants could still fake attendance by giving their iPhone to a friend who goes to classes.

But the university has claimed that youngsters are unlikely to lend the hi-tech mobile phones, which are packed with personal information and email.

[Thanks: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com]

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