By Christina Bonnington
Forget sitting, lazily note-taking, listening to a professor’s lecture. UC Irvine Med School is giving the educational system an about face by providing an iPad to each of its new students for their entirely digital, iPad-based curriculum.
Dr. Ralph Clayman, the dean of the School of Medicine, is committed to embracing evolving technology, and shows [...]

From the L.A. Times Technology Blog
Apple’s iPad can do movies, music, e-mail, apps and rich Web browsing. And of course, e-books. Should Amazon just put its comparably basic e-reader, the Kindle, to sleep?
Not so fast. Sleep experts say using the iPad before bed can affect sleeping habits unlike most other e-readers.
The difference? Devices like the [...]

Yank iPad apps unless Apple cedes complete control over the right to publish
By Ryan Chittum, posted at Columbia Journalism Review
The Nieman Journalism Lab’s Laura McGann has a disturbing report that ought to perk up every news organization that sees Apple’s iPad as part of its future.
McGann talked to Mark Fiore, who won a Pulitzer this week [...]

By Jeff Jarvis
I tweeted earlier that after having slept with her (Ms. iPad), I woke up with morning-after regrets. She’s sweet and pretty but shallow and vapid.
Cute line, appropriate for retweets. But as my hangover settles in, I realize that there’s something much more basic and profound that worries me about the iPad — and not just [...]