Missouri U. says you'll need an iPhone for that journalism class

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The Missouri University School of Journalism has told students that they will be required to have either an iPod Touch or an iPhone for their classes. Those gadgets start at $199 a pop -- no small expense for a state university student.

The school says that recording lectures improves information retention.

But an iPod? Really? Aren't there cheaper ways to record things like this vintage Fisher Price tape recorder I found eBay for $4.99? I'm exaggerating, of course, but the point is that there are much, much cheaper ways to make recorded lectures available to students. The professor could record himself and then email every student a WAV or MP3 file of the lecture -- The sound quality would be better too that way.

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