Moby-Dick Today: Innovative App ReThinks Class Interaction with White Whale
Students at Biola University are experimenting with a truly unusual approach to their class discussion of Moby-Dick: They’re doing it without the discussion. Or the book.The group of five students are the first to test out a new mobile app with far-reaching implications for the classroom — one that will be publicly unveiled on April 15, 2011, at Biola University’s Imagination Summit , an event aimed at exploring the role of technology in higher education.The “ReThink Books” app — which allows users to