USATODAY.com - iPods now double as study aids
The first websites i looked up were reports that Duke University has been doing on ipods. Duke University was one of the first colleges to experiment with incorporating ipods into their classes and studies. After reading up on the experiment i thought that the use of ipods to help with classes sounded very beneficial. After enrolling into the classes at Duke ipods are distributed to everyone and if they pass the course they get to keep the ipod as an incentive. With the ipods they can listen to lectures. This is especially good for those who have to miss a class so they won't get behind and students can now study just walking down the street at any time. I know i learn better by listening to something than i would reading something. This would be very beneficial to me because i could soak up the information easier and more quickly. Duke also used ipods in doing group projects where they turned in an mp3 instead of a paper. This worked very well with group and individual work. This use of ipods also made the students think about technology and all the different things that they could use them for in their projects and studying. Overall the program worked very well and got the students more excited about the class and the work they were doing. The initiative to be able to keep the ipods if they passed the course also helped I'm sure.
I have also found some more sites that showed ipods being used in K-12 classrooms and not just in college classrooms. Some schools i have found are using ipods as their books because ipods can hold everything their books can and ipods are not so heavy. Also students can use their ipods instead of going to the library because everything from the library can be stored in an ipod. Schools can now use ipods for almost everything in a classroom from reading, projects, discussions, and much more. Students still attend class, but the ipod is a very good tool for studying and using for projects. It also incorporates technology into learning, which is very good for students to start learning because technology is the future.I found a school that is using ipods with younger students even as young as elementary school. Jamestown Elementary School uses ipods with research papers that they do for grades in their classroom. They do all the regular research, their papers, and everything like they normally would and then they present it to the world including other students, their parents, and anyone else who wants to watch the presentation in a podcast via the ipod. This makes the kids more excited about doing their assignment because they get to use an ipod, which most younger people love and they get to share their work and be proud of what they did. I really think the idea of using ipods in a classroom is a great idea and wonderful way to take learning into the next century with technology.
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I thought it was interesting that they give out so many iPods and are still doing that today. It's much easier to incorporate technology in the classroom if every student and teacher has access to the technology. I wish they would do something like that here at South; especially for future teachers!
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