It wasn’t the type of requirement college freshman Megan Rheingans expected to find on her syllabus. Not a study guide, textbook or fancy calculator. Mandatory: an iPod Touch, iPhone or iPad. Several colleges, including Central Michigan University where Rheingans attends, are using the latest tech tools as a counterpart to traditional textbooks. Rheingans, an elementary education major, uses her new iPod Touch for her introduction to education class where an Apple application takes attendance and helps spur classroom discussions. Read more at:
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