Local public school students get assigned Zunes
By Ryan Block 
posted June 29th 2008 9:16PM
posted June 29th 2008 9:16PM
The latest edu-gimmick to hit small-town America: Liberty, Missouri's handing out a hundred and change media players -- Zunes, to be specific -- to local high school and middle school students for listening to lesson-supporting podcasts in the hopes of saving them "lost class time." Surely this will raise test scores, right? Or at least improve the Zune's cachet? Who knows -- even the district superintendent said, "Is it the next great thing? I don't know. Maybe. But it is another tool." Maybe the Kindle might make a better tool, but either way, Microsoft apparently intends to release data on the case study later this year.
Wow, what an original idea! Not. I work for an online K-12 school in Ohio and we have been giving our students iPods and producing supplemental podcasts for our students for the past 2 years.
Who claimed it was original? I'm guessing you think no other company can donate devices or laptops to be used for educational reasons? I'm quite sure companies have done that before the iPod came, believe it or not.
I'd let her be my teacher, if you know what I mean, and I think that you do! =O