Using the iPod Touch
In the Classroom
April Anft EDSP 430 Fall 2011
How can the iPod Touch help students learn?
• Enhances student engagement• Hands-on learning• Interactive• Immediate information at your fingertips• Exciting for students to use
How can the iPod Touch help students learn?
• Offers different modes of learning for each student
• Can be used for almost any subject– Apps in many different categories
• Many different ways to show learned information– Podcasts, videos, online assessments
Applications (Apps)
• Calculators/Timers/Alarms• Educational games• School sponsored lessons– Virginia Department of Education on iTunes U• Lessons that support the Virginia Standards of Learning Geography Algebra
Applications (Apps)
• Apps for games to make learning fun– Fraction food game– Phonics/Alphabet game– Music games to learn notes
• Apps to learn foreign languages• Apps specific to grade levels and subjects
Reading
• Podcasts• Text notes• eBooks• Students can listen to a book as they read it• Apps with books– Dr. Seuss page by page books that read to you
Video• Record experiments• Record lectures• Record class discussions• Record video to make into news shows, DVDs• Watch videos from Discovery Education’s
United Streaming• Record foreign language/sign language
homework, email to teacher• Share information with long distance school
pen pals
Internet
• Research for assignments• Look up unfamiliar words and terms• Send information to peers• Turn in assignments to teachers• Share class projects with parents through a
classroom blog
Pros/Cons
• PRO: Only need one set per classroom, can share between classes
• CON: The threat of theft/breakage• PRO: Useful in many different ways
and classrooms• CON: Students may be distracted/off task with
different apps• PRO: Students can learn new technology• CON: Not all apps are free/appropriate for
school
Conclusion
• Many classroom lesson plans/ideas already exist on the internet as a starting off point for teachers.
• Proper use of iPod touches can engage students in the classroom in ways not previously possible.
• Students really enjoy using new technology like the iPod touch.
• The iPod touch can be very useful in the classroom if used correctly.
Sources
• http://teachnet.eu/smaher/the-project/• http://web.me.com/crrichardson/Title_IID_Grant/iPod_touch_in_Education.html• http://www.meridianschools.org/Teaching21stCenturySkills/itouchipadipod/
Pages/Using%20iTouch%20in%20English.aspx• http://ipodclassroom.wikispaces.com/• http://oedb.org/library/features/top_50_iphones_for_educators• http://www.iear.org/• http://www.weareteachers.com/ideas/partnerask/teachingidea?
app=16037&grantId=65• http://learninginhand.com/ipod-lesson-plans/• http://edcommunity.apple.com/ali/story.php?itemID=10669• http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/3-countries-you-ought-to-know/id387896934• http://itunes.apple.com/itunes-u/teaching-mathematics/id387896659• http://www.macworld.com/article/139969/2009/04/virginia.html