Journal Entry #2

1. One of the reasons why I came to Mary Ward because I'm a very hands on kinda guy. I don't like people telling me what to do every 5 minutes. In my opinion, using ipods as a method of teaching is a great idea. Many of the students in our school tend to work by themselves or with others with as little teacher student interaction. Having the option of viewing their teachers lectures or seminars on their ipods would make a great tool for these people. I myself enjoy working with others but if i ever need help, i would ask a teacher. But the idea of the ipod classroom would do me well because if i ever needed to review something that i may have missed the first time, i could always look it over again and again.

2. If Mary Ward would embrace such technology, there would be a handful of both advatages and disadvantages. On the brighter side, we as students would have a great tool for catching up on a seminar that we may have missed or just for the sake of looking it over again. Other advantages include less seminar times the teachers would need meaning more floor times. But with the good comes the bad. Having this kind of technology could always backfire on you in an instant. If the school were to have this technology, not all students would have the necessary equipment needed for this. Also, if there were to be a problem, the whole system would be shut down andd no one would be able to use the service. In conclusion, i think that in the not so distant future, that this kind of technology would be in almost every school.