Santa Monica College is the newest entrant in the "let's throw iPods at our students" contest. While I give SMC full credit for being excited about the idea, they seem to be all over the board with how to best use them.
Some clips from the article:
- 25 low-income summer students will be the recipients of the on-loan iPods
- The downloadable material is for homework. It will not replace teaching
- Podcasting will be used in the remedial English and college orientation courses
- ...plans to have students create their own videos
- College counsellors want orientation students to watch portions of the show "The Office" to highlight communication breakdowns
Sounds to me like SMC needs to get a grip on their project before they start handing our the iPods.
The University of Calgary is going to use podcasting for 4 courses:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/news/march06/ipod-release.html
Cheers
Jason
P.S.
I didn't make up Podagogy - you can see it around the net like at the U of Wisconsin for example:
http://engage.doit.wisc.edu/podcasting/teachAndLearn/
Podagogy is a definate trend in educational circles.
Posted by: Jason Becker | June 16, 2006 9:18 AM | Permalink to Comment