The formal education is based on giving premium value to expertise, specialization, and hierarchy. As technology has been improved, the method of education also improved. The iPod experiment that was run at Duke University changed one-directional model of attention to multi-directional teaching method. For example, students could download anything they heard from worldwide, and not prerecorded programs made by professionals but content created and uploaded by anyone with an iPod. Also, duke students came up with many new ways to learn including iPod into social media. “The iPod experiment was an acknowledgement that the brain is, above all, interactive, that it selects, repeats, and mirrors, always, constantly, in complex interactions with the world”(Davidson 55).
The formal education is based on giving premium value to expertise, specialization, and hierarchy. As technology has been improved, the method of education also improved. The iPod experiment that was run at Duke University changed one-directional model of attention to multi-directional teaching method. For example, students could download anything they heard from worldwide, and not prerecorded programs made by professionals but content created and uploaded by anyone with an iPod. Also, duke students came up with many new ways to learn including iPod into social media. “The iPod experiment was an acknowledgement that the brain is, above all, interactive, that it selects, repeats, and mirrors, always, constantly, in complex interactions with the world”(Davidson 55).