iPods

How can iPods be used in education? The Hoover City School System, I know, has already incorporated iPods into education. Teachers in the third grade at Riverchase Elementary School use iPods to allow students to hear themselves read aloud. Each teacher was provided two iPods and a voice recorder to use in the classroom. The students can read aloud into the voice recorder and later go back and listen to what they read. It is a great way for teachers to listen to students read and notice progress in the students reading by listening to the first recording of the year and the last.

Not only can iPods be used for education in Elementary school but also in Universities across the nation. Duke University has incorporated iPods into the classroom. Duke News tells readers that the use of iPods in the classroom has quadrupled after one year in the classroom. The University even provided first year students in 2004 with a FREE iPod. Now they give undergraduate students who enroll in a course that requires an iPod a free iPod. I know that if I went to Duke, I would enroll in a class that uses the iPods because I think that educators and students can do so much with technology.