They may be banned from the classroom, however, iPods are coming (insert echo: iPods are coming)...'just wait until college students return from Christmas break! I am predicting that those little white wires dangling from ears will be the new symbolic tattoo, piercing, or exposed mid-section. There is hope. Some educators believe that the technology has possibilities:
A survey of more than 70 public and private high schools in the Indianapolis metro area showed that most do not allow electronics of any kind to be used during the school day. Rather than trying to beat it, though, some educators are joining the hand-held technology boom, allowing certain personal electronics to come to class. "Part of our professional responsibility is to understand what each generation brings into our school building," said Robert Albano, principal at Hamilton Southeastern, a high school of 2,400 in Fishers (IN) which this fall began allowing limited use of iPods and other portable music devices. "Utilizing electronic devices (is) appealing to this generation," Albano said. "Our responsibility is to be on the edge, to take risks."