{"id":15394,"date":"2009-10-07T16:24:39","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/college_technology_catching_up_with_students\/"},"modified":"2009-10-07T16:24:39","modified_gmt":"2009-10-07T16:24:39","slug":"college_technology_catching_up_with_students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15394","title":{"rendered":"College technology &#39;catching up&#39; with students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abilene Christian University freshmen receive more than the usual campus map and lists of required books when they enter the Texas university.<\/p>\n<p>For the past two years, they&#8217;ve also received an iPhone or iPod Touch from the university before they begin classes.<\/p>\n<p>At Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, a select group of freshmen received Kindles, an online book reader, instead of the textbooks.<\/p>\n<p>And at Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, a new $50 million education building has 75 miles of Internet networking cable and 11 miles of phone cable, allowing out-of-town students to link with the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/education\/2009-10-05-college-technology_N.htm\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abilene Christian University freshmen receive more than the usual campus map and lists of required books when they enter the Texas university. For the past two years, they&#8217;ve also received an iPhone or iPod Touch from the university before they<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=15394\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,94,111,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-blogging-the-internet","category-education","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}