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shadowmonkey
2010-01-20 02:07 am UTC (link)

Now I'm confused, are you arguing for, or against, the necessity of phones in class? Because I said I didn't think more than one person needs to have the phone on. If you are the professor demanding that students turn their phones off, and your uni solely relies on a text message/email emergency system, then it's absolutely beholden to you to have a phone available.

Of course, most (and frankly I hope all) universities do not use text message as a means of communicating warnings to people in class. It's a uncontrollable, unaccountable, third-party system without guarantee of delivering time-sensitive information. Much more efficient to hit the fire alarm, or shout at you. So I guess who has the phone on in class for warnings is kind of a moot point.

Anyway, the guy in the original post? Still a douchebag.

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	shadowmonkey 2010-01-20 02:11 am UTC (link)
	Possibly also "an" uncontrollable system. (Reply to this)(Parent)

snarkhunter
2010-01-20 04:03 am UTC (link)

Oh, I'm basically for them, but I don't really care one way or another. I just think it's impossible for the university to force faculty to carry their phones.

I actually don't get all that upset about my students' phones going off in class, as long as it's clearly a one-time thing or an accident. If they all started vibrating/ringing/beeping simultaneously, then, yeah, we should clearly find out what's going on.

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