iPods - mobile learning

This morning's article said that 16% of iPod owner plan to buy an iPad. There are 75 million iPod owners meaning that there are potentially some 12 million buyers of this new technology and that doesn't count any of the 200 million who don't own iPods. In marketing, I would think that Apple is smiling. In education, we need to get out of the starting blocks.

We may not be the next developers of Apps for the iPod or iPad, but if it's as easy as we experienced this week, to develop Apps, there will be many more that 4400 in a very short time. The other striking statistic is that of those young people thinking about buying a handheld device in the next 6 months, 100%, yes, 100% plan to buy an iPod. With the introduction of the iPad that may change.

Whether get an opportunity to design a lesson around an iPod in the next couple weeks, lessons around iPods are in the future and we need to be there also. It's not if this technology will effect education and its delivery, but when and how. How do we integrate the attitudes of young people, the fads of the time, the motivators of society into better pedagogy?