Ways to use an iPod in class

Duke University used iPods in a variety of different ways. Some academic examples include: having course content with you where ever you go, class recording, Field experience recording, studying, and storing files and being able to transfer files. This sounds like a good idea, students given a iPod to help with their success of school. 1600 students received an iPod in the beginning of the 2004 school year, and the Center for Instructional Technology created an evaluation to see just how this new experience would work. Just about everyone loved this new concept and it pretty much went well. http://cit.duke.edu/pdf/reports/ipod_initiative_04_05.pdf


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This site describes how using an iPod can help troubled math students. In this lesson, the teacher allows each student to have an iPod, and what the student does, is come up with rhymes or songs to help with certain math facts. Students learn faster when they can make up stuff to help them, or hear what they need to know over and over, so by using this activity, the whole class will have different songs ect. to help each other memorize their math facts.