Technology in Education: Classroom iPads can act as all those-plus as globes, maps and interactive tools. Students can immediately demonstrate their geographic knowledge by pointing to India or France on a map displayed on the interactive touch projector.
TWIN FALLS * Education technology professor Dave Makings has seen the way technology has evolved during his time at the College of Southern Idaho. He introduces his education students - the next generation of teachers - to some of the gadgets and programs they may see in their future classrooms, such as online course management systems and iPads.
Thanks to the current media frenzy and barrage of lawsuits surrounding violent video games, I can't tell people what I do for a living without getting a lecture on the current plague of youth violence and the scourge that is Grand Theft Auto.