An interesting story in USA Today regarding colleges' providing Kindles (that's the electronic book reader made by Amazon, pictured right), Apple iPods and other high-tech devices for students to use in learning and instruction. An excerpt:
Today's college classrooms are high-tech marvels, with overhead projectors and grease
pencils replaced by document cameras, handheld clickers and interactive white boards.
"A lot of this is us catching up with the students and what they're bringing to us," says Michael Reuter, 42, director of technology operations at Central Michigan.
Faculty, for the most part, see technology as a way to better connect to students in their interactive, multitasking, apps-ready world.
"A lot of people my age see technology as a tool to check e-mail and do grades. But for kids, the technology is just the environment that they know," says Howard Pitler, senior director of curriculum and instruction at McREL, an education research non-profit in Denver.
Kevin Butler has been covering education for more than five years at the Press-Telegram. Previously he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Independent weeklies and in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Investor's Business Daily. A native of Houston, Butler graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in economics and government. 
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