While in Nashville last week, we heard a lot about mobile learning. So when a group of us dropped in to the Apple Store, we took the opportunity to take a first look at Apple’s new iPod Touch.
The iTouch was very easy to use. It was interesting to see how one person in our group intuitively pinched the screen to zoom in and out of a web page. No instruction needed.
There’s a lot of opportunity for mobile learning with tools like the iTouch. Potentially, these are learning environments that you can carry in your pocket, as a friend of mine has noted. Of course, students could use it to browse the web — the full web, not the miniaturized version available on most cell phones. They could share files, watch video, chat or check their email — which is more than students do in most online courses now. By clicking on any of the dozens of web apps that others have developed for the iTouch, students can also share what they’re doing, get organized, play games or check their Facebook. The iTouch is also customizable in a way that learning management systems aren’t and, as a result, integrates better with the other digital bits of our students’ lives.
What would you rather use to take your online course? This or this? Yep. Me, too.
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Very cool! Thanks for the heads up.