An article in the NYT on schools that are providing Ipods to students as a learning tool. They mention Duke as having pioneered this, an initiative which was undertaken by our current technology czar, Molly Tamarkin, before we stole her away for UPS. Read the article here. Favorite quote:
When it gets a little boring, I might pull it out,” acknowledged Naomi J. Pugh, a first-year student at Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tenn., referring to her new iPod Touch, which can connect to the Internet over a campus wireless network. She speculated that professors might try harder to make classes interesting if they were competing with the devices.
And I might toss your Ipod out the window. Check out the comments on the article online--pretty interesting range of responses.
