One of the single most important and priceless inventions of the 21st century is the amazing Apple ipod. Designed simply as a storage device for MP3 music data, the ipod has leaped light years from origin. The technology today has the ability to store video and audio data endlessly.Thus. opening the door for new age information gathering and sharing.
One very useful application for the ipod is offering instruction for...pretty much anything. Searching the web for instructional based usage of the ipod belted out thousands of instances, but one that really captured my imagination was ipods being used to train teachers in Zambia. The project was funded by the EDC. They offered ipods to sixth grade teachers for Math, Science and English lessons for use in the classrooms. They also received a sound board to play the lessons to the entire class. The ability to rewind and stop a lesson was key to the involvement in the classroom.(http://ies.edc.org/news/articles/php?id=262)
I also found that Duke University has implicated use of ipods in the classroom as well. The students use the ipods vicariously for lectures and assignments among other elements as well. The University even took the initiative in 2004 to distribute ipods to all freshman students for class room use.The program known as (DDI) Duke Digital Initiative is formatting a new realm of technology use in classrooms especially in the form of the Apple ipod.
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