iPods in Instruction

iPod

In 2005, Duke University partnered with Apple conducted an experiment on 1,650 incoming Freshmen. Each student got an iPod free of charge. The students used tools such as: the calender, to store sports games; the alarm clock, to wake them up in the morning; the address book, to store important numbers; and the hard drive function, to back up files onto a computer. Once they backed up the files onto a computer they could post information on sites like blackboard(a popular program used for Internet classes).


iPods in the Classroom


iPods allows teachers to integrate audio and video into daily classroom curriculum. History teachers can play back famous speeches accessed from the Library of Congress. Putting a video or audio onto a computer can let students who missed a day catch up to the rest of the class. This can also allow a student to review daily lessons as many times as they need to and when they want to. This is a good tool for studying. iPods allow students to interview people and create podcasts for the community to watch.

Whether its used for storing events and contacts, waking up in the morning, downloading files, and/or studying a lesson iPods is a useful device to have in the classroom.


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iPods in the classroom
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