Use of iPods in Instruction

I have never heard of such a thing!! I wish that our college used iPods in some of the courses that I am taking so I can be issued a free one, just like at Duke University. That is so awesome, but I'm sure they do not expect the iPod to be used so much for personal pleasure, but for use to help in adaptation to digital technology. According to Duke News, there were 42 courses that required an iPod in the year 2006. I am sure by now, many additional courses have been added to the Duke Digital Initiative (DDI). There is so much today that deals with technology that I agree it should be used more in our classes. Someone in America cannot go throughout one day without the use of some sort of technology. Every single job requires some knowledge dealing with technology, so everyone should definitely be more informed about it.

In doing more research on iPods being used in classes for instruction, I stumbled across a website dealing with iPod use at Edith Cowan University, Using iPods in Learning & Teaching. They listed a number of "ways for educators to use iPods in Teaching and Learning." Here are a few: Recording Economic Lectures, Reviewing with iPods, Text and audio, Storage of information, Developing new engineering software, Dictating lesson plans and research notes, and the list goes on! Being able to record a lecture really appeals to me, since I tend to fall asleep in class sometimes! That is horrible, but at least I still choose to attend :]. Like I said earlier, hopefully one day this will reach all colleges around the United States, including the University of South Alabama. By the time it does, I most likely will have already graduated, but it can and will help others in the future become more literate when it comes to technology while also making life easier in college.