Nightmare Waiting to Happen

The Chronicle of Higher Education's Wired Campus news today reported on this "Smart Pen" that's being touted at a digital conference in hopes of being marketed (probably successfully, considering the price is not out of this world) to college students. It's not enough that cellphones, Treos, and IPods are in the classroom and we have to be aware of the potentials for threats to academic integrity with these gadgets, but now we have a pen that records what is written and spoken! Yikes! This is a nightmare waiting to happen! Students will love it, of course, but it opens up a whole new can of worms for the teacher.