Steve's HR Technology - Journal - Welcome to the Company! Here is your iPhone - 0 views
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The school distributed the iPhones with some specific, and fairly modest goals. Let students participate in class polls, have access to some information systems, etc. These were important and valuable benefits. But the students proceeded to leverage the technology to better connect with each other, to facilitate their own projects and group activities, and ultimately to derive more value than the administration had ever foreseen.
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When technology is designed to promote adaptation, or is developed and consumed in ways that can support changes to configuration and flexible levels of personalization the opportunity for end users and employees to 'discover' new and better uses is significantly enhanced.
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Abilene Christian certainly seems like an unlikely place to be at the forefront of an innovative, cutting edge technology-based project like this. And it is. But it shows that even from unlikely sources, ones without national reputations, and billion-dollar endowments, that fantastic innovations can arise.
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The school distributed the iPhones with some specific, and fairly modest goals. Let students participate in class polls, have access to some information systems, etc. These were important and valuable benefits. But the students proceeded to leverage the technology to better connect with each other, to facilitate their own projects and group activities, and ultimately to derive more value than the administration had ever foreseen.