<p>I’m a liberal, and I do not want people tracking somebody when they aren’t “there.”</p>
<p>I just think we all have failed to heed the lessons of 1984, and it is probably too late. But, honestly, do we want a professor tracking our kids’ reading in a textbook which may or may not have any discernible value to their learning?</p>
<p>things like this just gall me.</p>
<p>Remember that this is just a technology: people are perfectly free to avoid courses by profs that use this technology.</p>
<p>But I think the only place a student gets a “textbook” anymore is in an intro course, and these are generally required.</p>
<p>But, it is what it is. My youngest will escape this and my oldest is done with “textbooks”</p>
<p>I see this technology as being used more in a high school setting, personally, where teachers will use it to punish the kids who usually get punished for “not doing the homework,” in spite of getting As on the tests. I don’t see this as catching on in college.</p>
<p>What professor really wants to babysit the voluntary students they teach?</p>
<p>I actually foresee things splitting quite widely. Some profs are starting to ban laptops and cellphones, and others are using e-texts and these monitoring technologies.</p>