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    1. At an IT conference about the student journey and specifically a session on envisioning the student journey in 2025. Apparently in the future, enrollment, campus access, everything will be done through the smartphone and there's no way that disadvantages certain students at all.
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    I hate this idea that we adopt systems that require students to a. have personal computing devices and b. be happy to use those personal devices for university access.
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      By all means, plan for a BYOD environment but don't make it a prerequisite for access to university services that the university should be providing to ALL students.
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        This presentation (from a very prominent UK university) is now talking about gym access (again using smartphones) and is weirdly fatphobic. Really not good.
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          Vendors will happily sell you these solutions that rely on personal devices by the way because it means they're selling you a half-finished product with a huge gap filled by reliance on the goodwill of staff and students and their personal devices.