When Davidson decided to distribute iPods she wanted to give students a new way to learn beyond the traditional style of education. She understood that the students already had an adept ability to learn but the material was not always engaging enough for them causing many students to suffer from having to follow a common curriculum. Davidson saw many schools and universities as a factory line manufacturing and producing students the way they wanted them to be instead of helping each student grow as an individual. By giving students the ability to use iPods and learn from them the way they see fit Davidson is giving students to grow in their own way while helping the technology and educational aspects grow as well. When Davidson called the experiment " a lesson in institutional unlearning" she was saying how by using these iPods students where creating their own education beyond the classroom, rather then follow a common curriculum and learning what every other student is learning they can now take a more personal route with their own interests in mind.
Crowd sourcing means to use a group of people in order to gain information or accomplish a certain project. The experiment at Duke is a perfect example of crowd sourcing as it used the students feedback and ideas in order to grow the technology. Not only did the students grow from the technology but from each other by sharing their knowledge and ideas with other students, and by having the students grow the technology grew as well benefiting everyone in the experiment. This network of students growing from one another builds off the idea of interconnection since so many of these students pulled there resources and ideas together in order to help the technology and their education grow.
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