Okay, this doesn't really have much to do with technology in education, but then again, maybe it could. Now it appears that you can get a program called ILingo for the ever-popular IPod. It will translate and pronounce important phrases like "Where's the bathroom?" into 450 languages!
So the next time you're stuck in Spain and can't find el bano, you'll know what to say ...
I originally was thinking this didn't have any application to education because most people don't have IPods. But then I thought, what if they did? The trend in technology is that the price really bottoms out after a few years. For example, I saw a digital camera on sale at Wal-mart for less than $25. I swear it! So what if IPods ever became cheap enough that everyone had them--just like everyone has personal CD players now?
What ideas would this open up? If you, as a teacher, realized most or all of your students had this technology already, how could you utilize it in your teaching? I expect the foreign language teachers to just pipe right up, but how about the rest of you? The IPod has many potential uses--how could you use it?
