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Students Get iPods as Study Aids

Posted by pudge on from the mmmm-gothic-imagination dept.

WIAKywbfatw writes "Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia has given iPod digital music players to its students to help them with their coursework, as reported by BBC News. Apple donated about 50 iPods as part of an experimental project to illustrate creative uses for the machine, and University professors say the gadgets have helped the students think more critically about their Gothic Imagination course." I wonder if I can write off my new iPod as an education expense.

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  1. Time to go back to school by Jingle · · Score: 4, Funny

    If I can get a 30gb iPod for free it might be worth the effort for about a week. :)

  2. Gothic Imagination course? by rnb · · Score: 5, Funny

    University professors say the gadgets have helped the students think more critically about their Gothic Imagination course.

    That's a lot of Bauhaus and Sisters of Mercy songs.

    1. Re:Gothic Imagination course? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      last year, the course was expanded.

      now, you also have to be able to regurgetate the full history of both Christian Death's, in order to pass the class.

      this happened after a student finally ended the perpetual debate of whether bela lugosi was dead or undead by producing his skeleton.

    2. Re:Gothic Imagination course? by Elequin · · Score: 5, Funny

      My car is so goth it goes "Ankh! Ankh!"

    3. Re:Gothic Imagination course? by Caoch93 · · Score: 4, Funny

      I see, so successfully deciphering the meaning behind The Sisters of Mercy's "This Corrosion" is left for a graduate level course?

  3. At my school... by strateego · · Score: 5, Funny

    All I get is an education. I don't want that crap. I want my free iPOD. Damn you WCC

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  4. Quote the article.. by Rudy+Rodarte · · Score: 5, Funny

    "I not only use it for class assignments but for personal use as well." I wonder what kind of personal use this dude was talking about? Surely not the 17,000 over the next 3 years kind?

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  5. For Todays Field Trip... by wo1verin3 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Attention Class, For Todays Field Trip we will be visiting CompUSA and seeing who can steal the most software.

  6. Gothic iPod by magarity · · Score: 4, Funny

    "their Gothic Imagination course"

    I didn't know iPods came in black.

  7. There's a Gothic Imaginiation course??? by JonKatzIsAnIdiot · · Score: 5, Funny
    The universities are in sadder shape than I thought. What does the syllabus look like?
    • It's not your parent's basement - it's a medieval dungeon
    • Appropriate curses to use when your father won't let you drive his Volvo
    • How to prove your individuality by dressing alike

  8. Whoops.... by ewhenn · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...Apple donated about 50 iPods as part of an experimental project...

    There goes profitability for the next 2 quarters.

  9. The ideal money-making scheme for the RIAA by broken · · Score: 4, Funny

    1 - Give free iPods to college students.
    2 - Wait a few months and sue them for all the "illegal" music they have stored there.
    3 - Profit! (receive tens of thousands of dollars in settlements)

  10. Re:Most Colleges by Anixamander · · Score: 4, Funny

    for people who have physical disabilities (such as deafness) that would prevent them from learning the material by hearing it a single time

    This would also work for people who don't speak the language in which the course is taught. They could just play it back louder.

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