Tue - October 9, 2007

In Some Schools, iPods Are Required Listening


"...Next month, the Union City district will give out 300 iPods at its schools as part of a $130,000 experiment in one of New Jersey’s poorest urban school systems. The effort has spurred a handful of other districts in the state, including the ones in Perth Amboy and South Brunswick, to start their own iPod programs in the last year, and the project has drawn the attention of educators from Westchester County to Monrovia, Calif."

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Wed - August 15, 2007

The Internet puts you a few clicks away from the best college lectures in America


"College is expensive. But if you are willing to settle for an education and don’t need the extra frill of a degree, the Internet now offers a way to listen to first-rate instruction—the kind that would normally cost upwards of $40,000 per year—for free. I’m referring to the rise of university podcasts: recordings of classes, lectures, and special events that are catalogued and made available online to anyone with the inclination to listen."

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Wed - February 7, 2007

Publishers cater to growing use of MP3s for schoolwork


NEW YORK (AP) --" Lindleigh Whetstone wears headphones as she shoves clothes into the washing machine. Her classmate, Stepheno Zollos, wears them as he shops for groceries. An onlooker might assume the teens are listening to the latest top 40 hit, but they're really learning Spanish."

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