As you know, colleges as well as universities love throwing in “giveaway” gadgets to clear bumping up their the number enrolled fees. To this end, USC Annenberg has voiced the brand-new program to provide j-school students with iPads, digital cameras, as well as audio recorders to assistance them report the headlines. Now, don’t get us wrong: we conclude the importance (and we’re large fans of) “the journalism,” as well as if an ascent from those prolonged, skinny notepads to complicated consumer electronics helps promote a new stand of Woodwards ‘n Bernsteins, afterwards so be it. But have been these kids unequivocally supposed to type their front-line reportage with the on-screen keyboard? And haven’t many students had access to correct laptops for years right away?

In other “iPad in preparation” headlines, UC Irvine’s iMedEd Initiative is on condition that initial year healing students with “the extensive, iPad-based curriculum,” according to PhysOrg. The devices have been equipped with all a required apps for note-taking, recording audio, as well as expertise will rise podcasts and archiving lectures. Our the one preferred partial of all this? The “digital stethoscope,” that interfaces with a tablet for listening to as well as recording the patient’s heartbeat. Once recorded, it can be compared to the library of over 3,000 heart sounds which personify specific heart conditions. Thornton Melon never had it so good!

[Thanks, Matt F]