Duke iPods

Beginning in August 2004, Duke University started giving out 20 gig Apple iPods with Belkin Voice Recorders to incoming freshmen. They did this as a part of a university initiative to encourage creative uses of technology in education and campus life. The academic uses of the iPod were divided into five major categories:
1) Course content dissemination tool (Portable access to course content like lectures, songs, speeches, etc.)
2)Classroom recording tool (record lectures, discussions, etc.)
3)Field recording tool (record notes, interviews, etc.)
4) Study support tool
5) File storage and transfer
These academic uses proved to be very convenient for faculty and students. It also greatly reduced students' dependence on lab and library hours and locations. It also encouraged greater student involvment and interest in class discussions, labs, research, and projects.
I, personally, do not own an iPod and never have, so I do not really know all the tools or how to use them. Also, there is no telling how advanced the iPods will be by the time I become a teacher. Therefore, I have no idea how I will use the iPod in my classroom.

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This is my sister Katie and her friend Chelan at the All-County Softball banquet last year.

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This is my dog Bear. He is probably the stupidest dog in the world!

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This is Bety. She is the girl that I sponsor from Casa Aleluya orphanage in Guatemala.

 
 

Dr Strange's article

After reading Dr. Strange's article, "A Cultural Revolution: From Books to Silver Discs," my position on the issue has not changed. Technology is advancing faster than anyone even predicted, and books, articles, and other forms of the printed page are being and basically have been replaced by more technologically advanced multimedia. When the article was written (15 years ago) they were predicting that CD's would be the main source of storage for the next 20 years. Well, 15 years later, we have DVD, Blue ray, jump drives, etc. which are all much more advanced than CD's. After reading these two articles, I have no idea how I'm going to use technology in my classroom because there is no telling how advanced it will be by the time I'm a teacher.

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Seymour Papert

Seymour Papert is a distinguished professor at the University of Maine. He used to be a professor at MIT where he cofounded the Artificial Intelligence Lab and founded the MIT Media Lab. Over the years, he has researched how technology provides new ways for children all around the world to learn. He has worked on projects on every continent including some in remote undeveloped countries.
As a professor at MIT, he had a lab where many firsts took place. The first time children ever used a computer to to write and creat graphics was in his lab. It was also in his lab where th Logo programming language was created. Finally, the first children's toys that had bulit-in computation were created in his lab. Basically, he is trying to get children caught uop with today's technology so that they will be exposed to different/better ways of learning.
Here , is a link to many of Papert's works.