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Monday, September 26, 2005
iPods at the Gate - Mikael Blaisdell, Campus Technology
Like little armies dragging their downloadable ammunition behind them, Apple’s iPods are poised at the juncture of teenworld and your campus, just waiting to invade. Can this be a good thing? On a warm August evening in Durham, North Carolina, Duke University’s entire incoming freshman class celebrated the beginning of the 2004 fall term by stampeding the Distribution Center to receive what was described by Duke’s administration as a hot new item of pedagogical technology. Preloaded with welcoming speeches (by various Duke officials) plus assorted information about the campus, and slated for use in four course offerings, the fourth-generation iPod (www.apple.com) giveaways represented a Duke investment in equipment and supporting infrastructure of about $500K. Of course, the euphoric reaction of Duke’s freshmen may have had more to do with the prospect of endlessly downloadable rock than with the device’s promised contribution to a first-year learning experience.
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