The "Duke Digital Initiative" is a program for new freshmen at Duke University that enables students to be issued a new ipod for use in the classroom. First, using an ipod for instruction? Computers are bad enought allowing students to check email and myspace between doing work. With an ipod a student has unlimited ability to explore technology instead of doing their work.
The uses for the ipod in the class range from digital podcasts to visual memory to downloaded information to be tested on. With all this in the palm of your hand, why do you even need the teacher? One student could attend class and send it to everyone else to watch at home in bed. I think the more colleges get wrapped up in technology, the more they get away from what really matters.
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