Good Use of iPod for Education
We all know iPod is for music and entertainment. Few years ago, no one would ever guess that iPod could also be used for education. There is a growing number of “iTunes U” in the US. These universities explore the use podcasts and iPods to encourage students to learn.
Here are some real uses of iPods and podcasts:
- A history professor asks students to download 39 films to their video-capable iPods so she doesn’t have to spend class time screening the movies.
- A psychology professor has found a new-age answer to office hours: a podcast of the week’s most asked questions.
- Foreign language students use iPods to immerse themselves in coursework.
- University administrators want to use podcasts to recruit high schoolers to the 3,000-student campus.
Source: Rural college push iPod use for lectures, CNN, March 20, 2006
Technology evolution is a strange thing. Sometimes it’s extremely difficult to predict how a new technology will use when it gets into the hands of general population. The use of iPod is a good example.
If people think that ipods are bad they must be dume about it because ipods are good
Comment by saira — February 15, 2007 @ 6:08 pm
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