By CHRISTOPHER F. SCHUETZE, NY Times
During a one-week welcoming event here for the General Management Program at the business school Essec, incoming students are introduced to the school, the curriculum and the staff. At the end, they are handed what educators there see as one of their most important learning tools: an iPad. While specialized education tools have long played an important role in the classroom, some of the most commonly used gadgets and Web sites have become teaching tools of choice at business schools like Essec and elsewhere. Facebook is increasingly used to foster a sense of community for business school classes that meet just a few times a semester; Twitter is used as a way for students to be heard in big halls, letting them ask questions during lectures without having to raise their hand or voice; and videoconferencing software is used at many business schools as a tool for communication between far-flung networks of professors and experts.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/world/europe/a-scholarly-role-for-consumer-technology.html?_r=1
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