Friday, October 2, 2009

Ipods in the Classroom; what I found

The most useful site I found on implementing the use of ipods in classroom instruction was www.education world.com It included articles on what schools are using ipods in the classrooms and how. It also provided a links to other sites featuring the latest technology for teachers and how to use it in the classroom. All in all, this site would be the most useful for educators to learn how to effectively use ipods in the classrooms.
I did find a few articles on the use ipods in the classroom. Most simply pointed out that most schools still see ipods as a distracting tool for entertainments to be kept out of the classroom to keep from distracting students. However, there are some schools such as Duke University who gave ipods to incoming freshman to use in order to upload recorded lectures, research material, labs, etc. and was so successful with this experiment that they have now started providing ipods to all incoming freshman. Ipods in the classroom would improve students learning in my opinion because it allows students to learn where ever they go.

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