“The Duke Center for Instructional Technology is looking for ways to incorporate the iPad into the classroom, said Lynne O’Brien, director of academic technology and instructional services,” Sussman reports. “CIT plans to buy a number of iPads for faculty and students by this Fall. ‘We’re very interested in what the iPad might enable for education and research at the University.’ O’Brien said. ‘Duke is a leader in exploring the use of mobile devices with multimedia. I think we will do some kind of explorations with the iPad.'”
Sussman reports, “Members of the faculty can approach CIT with a research question and a plan to use the iPad in the classroom. If CIT approves the professor’s proposal, students will be provided with iPads to use in the course. After a semester, the professor must provide an evaluation of the device.”
“O’Brien said that so far, about eight to 10 faculty members have contacted CIT to learn more about the iPad,” Sussman reports. “‘I wouldn’t be surprised if in the Fall, we have at least half a dozen instructors doing some type of experiment with them over the course of the semester,’ she said.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Sam I.” for the heads up.]
One thing’s for sure: Duke got damn lucky when Arinze Onuaku sustained a quad injury and couldn’t play in the NCAA tourney.
Evil:
Duke, Yankees, ManU, Microsoft, Google
Good:
Syracuse, Red Sox, Arsenal, Apple, Ben & Jerry’s
In the voice of Arnold Schwarzenegger “It’s not a toy!”
Very Evil: dook
Very Good: Carolina
Experimenting at University. I though that experimenting started in Junior High now-a-days.
Saw the word ‘duke’ and ‘iPad’ in the same headline, and jumped to completely the wrong conclusion..
Just what we need – toys in the classroom at institutions of higher education. Yes, the iPad does make it easier – with it’s simple and fast access to mindless games – for the further dumbing down of our society.
I wonder if Jobs is actually working for Obama as part of his plan to seize the country.
You Duke-hating bozos know that COO Tim Cook went there, right?
Mr Cook has done well despite alarmingly poor taste in educational institutions.
Friends don’t let friends go to Duke.
@Toy
Gosh a record set. We got 5 posts in before some asshole has to get political. Just go away clown.
I’m with you, HughB.
Ignore the clown “Toy.” I bet those aren’t really even his political views.
@ Toy,
“… for the further dumbing down of our society.”
Looks like you got the jump on the rest of us.
Sir Gill Bates FTW!
@ Toy
“Just what we need – toys in the classroom at institutions of higher education. Yes, the iPad does make it easier – with it’s simple and fast access to mindless games – for the further dumbing down of our society.
I wonder if Jobs is actually working for Obama as part of his plan to seize the country.”
Mindless seems to be your thing!
I love it how in this society we root for people/organizations/institutions to succeed…..and then when they do, we can’t wait to tear them down. Duke and the Yankees do what they’re supposed to do…win. It doesnt make them evil, just successful. Who cares if the Yanks have a big payroll? They get paid to win….and they win. When the Dead Sox (with a pretty obscene payroll themselves) have won even HALF the Word Series the Yanks have, then maybe they’ll be doing their job, but the fact that they continuously lose doesn’t make them “good,” it just makes them a poor ball club.
I wonder how many of the inane “good/evil” posters on here are just waiting to take a pot shot at Apple because of their huge success.
I love Apple but hate dook (that is the correct spelling).
Does that make me inane?
P.S. GO HEELS!!!!!
“The Duke University Computer Store currently has iPads for sale and has sold approximately six so far…”
Tipping point – here we come! Ha! Ha!
Before you start flaming me, I’m joking. Joking. I REALLY am an Apple fan. I just thought it was funny that they sold a grand total of…(I’m imagining hundreds)…6. I just found that funny in a dark humor sort of way.
It’s like Ray Steven’s song, “RV” – …miles per gallon…we got three!”
Peace.
Rachel Sussman writes like a 6th grader. Have you ever used a iPad Ms. Sussman? I thought not, bitch!
MusicDoc,
In the last six years, the Boston Red Sox have won double the World Series Championships than have the Yankees.
This result is despite the Yankees having the highest payroll in all of Major League Baseball, by far, for each of those six years.
Obviously, the Red Sox are the ones who are doing their jobs, not the Yankees who have only HALF of the championships than the lower payroll Red Sox over the past six years.
Therefore, using your own definition, the Yankees are the poor ball club who aren’t doing their jobs.
The iPad’s great, but it’s not like you can send your kid off to college with an iPad and that’s it… they still need a computer to sync to… so, it would be (a really cool) additional device.
And I’ve read the debates about how you don’t need to sync. Truth is, you do. If you want to update your software, you need to sync. If you want to reset/reboot/unfreeze it when it freezes up (which happens on the iPhone about twice/year), you need to sync. There are other examples… but basically it’s dependent on a master computer at some point.
Now, needing to sync isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but reading these types of articles may confuse parents and students into thinking this can be their computer. It’s more like a really sophisticated notepad (or Trapper Keeper if you can remember back that far).
@ TigerCliff
Hopefully, the iPad may follow the “90-10” rule for students, too. For 90% of the students, an iPad will do all but 10% of what they need to do. The others need computers. For the the 90%, there are open computer labs for the 10% of the tasks they need to do on the ‘bigger’ machine. At least it’s a design worth exploring…
Let’s see majors that having an iPad only would be useless for…..
1) Accounting
2) Math
3) Any Engineering
4) Chem
5) MIS
6) Comp-sci
7) Statistics
Looks like the psych majors, with a minor under-water basket weaving, will benefit from having a iPad only academic career. Now anyone going to college trying to learn the skills needed to design and create an iPad like device, or program an iPad like device, or create better polymers for an ipad like device, etc. will get a crappy education if forced to use an iPad and only an iPad. Sounds like, in the education market, the iPad has a built in job security feature for Apple employees.
just my $0.02