Week 11

IPods are used in the schools for many reasons, one includes giving the bilingual students iPods to sing songs in English=, which helps them learn the English language better. Other examples include posting homework on school websites, so that the students can have easy access to them. It is also especially useful in teaching language skills. Another example includes, a teacher at Grand Prairie's Ervin C. Whitt Elementary School, who puts a rock song about solid, liquids, and gases on the iPods for the students to learn about. Iowa schools are now using iPods to give standardized test to the students.Using iPods is a great way to teach kids about subjects they might otherwise find boring.
Duke University did a study on using iPods in schools and found some academic uses for iPods, which include, portable access to course content such as lectures, songs, historical speeches, foreign language content, iTunes Music Store, Blackboard course management tool, and podcast. The iPods can be used to capture lectures, field notes, interviews, and will also help the students to be able to listen to the lessons they have recorded as many times as they need in order to learn it. An example would be for the students to listen to the vocabulary w0rds as they try to study and prepare for the test. IPods reduce the amount of physical materials, by having audio and video recordings, which provides a more convenient way to learn and study. Duke University found that the iPod was most useful for recording at short distances and in small groups. Using iPods is a great way to bring technology into the classroom. As teachers it is important for us to know how to use and incorporate iPods into our classrooms, so that we will not produce technologically illiterate students.

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