The University of Maryland at College Park is giving iPods and iPhones to students to find out if the devices can have any educational use.
The iPod Touches and iPhones will go to 133 freshmen who received one of two scholarships—the Maryland Incentive Awards Program, which goes to students who go to college despite difficult challenges (mainly African-Americans), and the Banneker-Key scholarship, the university’s most prestigious merit award.
Haven’t we been down this road before—at, say, Duke University? Or how about Abilene Christian University? How many studies do universities have to do to determine whether there is educational value to the latest cool tech toy?—Scott Carlson
