Ch. 3

Apple had come to Duke University to see if they could sell one of their items and make them an Apple Digital Campus. Duke needed to know if they could use any of their items for educational use. They ended up buying the IPod in 2003 and handed them out to every freshman that year to see if they could be put to learning use. In the world of technology crowdsourcing means inviting a group to collaborate on a solution to a problem. Cathy Davis and her staff at Duke told the upper classmen that if they convinced their professors to use IPods in their courses they would receive free ones also. Students were using IPods to do interviews and created an audio documentary that they aired on a regional radio station, they also used them in the nursing program as stethoscopes to hear patients heart beats, and they were mainly used in the music program where students uploaded compositions to their IPods.

Cathy Davidsons argument in this chapter is basically the use of new technology in class rooms throughout Duke University. She wanted to propose a new idea to students and the professors to see if using technology in the class room would help students to learn and stay organized and get more work done. She was trying to show the old school generation of learning how the new school generation of learning works which is the Technology Age. She knew a lot of the older professors would be confused and most likely would not like the new proposal, but was trying to make them understand by having the students give their professors reasons to use this new tool called an IPod in their class rooms. I think her argument was definitely legit because of the response by the students throughout the chapter. They came together and made many useful ways to use the IPod in the class room and proved to Duke University that this was a good investment for their school. It also has continued to change over the years with how much technology we use in our classrooms today whether its online classes, laptops, IPads, IPods, or even multi media phones. Cathy Davidson helped change the way students learned on campus by introducing new technology to them and putting it to great use.