The United Kingdom’s Leeds University is ‘giving’ Apple iPhone 3GSs to its fourth and fifth-year medical students in a new educational initiative. The University’s press release published the message that ‘Generation Y’ student doctors are skipping textbooks for iPhones. Read more
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‘Free’ iPhones for UK Medical Students
UK Military Implementing iPad in the Classroom?
The iPad is seeing more combat than living rooms The Next Web reports. Young grunts at the Royal School of Artillery are getting key training and are learning faster than ever before via the slick device, thanks to the interaction and presentation of real-world combat situations.
”[…] benefits of iPad use in military training, and any learning experience for that matter, is a decrease in the amount of classroom time required when using the right app for the situation, decreases in costs associated with publishing training materials, and the mobility the iPad offers can transfer learning to any environment.”
Engaging students behind enemy lines, it’s great to see the iPad making waves in education. As colleges begin adopting the device too, I wonder if student performance will see similar increases in the classroom?
[BBC via The Next Web]