How Long Can You Go Without Your Gadgets?

Posted in college, Students, Teaching

Trash

No Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google, e-mail, iPods, or cell phones. That’s what one professor told her students to give up for five days. Could they do it? University of Minnesota professor Heather LaMarre was certainly pulling for them.

Read more …Prof’s assignment: Dump tech gadgets for 5 days.

The required hardware list

Posted in college, Reading, Soapbox, Students
iPhone, required hardware for college?

iPhone, required hardware for college?

Never mind the required reading list as in textbooks, try the required hardware list.
Unplugged reports that some students are required, (with a capital R) to buy either an iPod or an iPhone.

Of course to be fair to non-Apple users, it would be nice to have audio and video in formats outside of iTunes for those who have other devices.

Read more about it here.