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iPod Touch in the Classroom I came across an article that dealt with a teacher piloting an iPod touch classroom. The whole idea where an iPod is $200 and a laptop is $1000. Students are excited and they can teach themselves the best way to use it. As I read the article, I’m not sold that they will replace the computers we now have. In fact the I Pad has a better chance, but what we do in my classrooms, I’m not sure these devices can handle that yet.

Special Education I Pod Demo This is a link to a video that shows some of the benifit for students in special education and their use of the ipod touch. They focus on the idea of tests being read to the student by a recorded voice. Student can pause and work on the test without their reading limits holding them back.

Apple Learning Interchange – IPod touch, Touching Students Lives in the Classroom This is a website has many ideas for great uses of the iPod Touch in the Classroom.It includes information about file storage and management, using the touch in many different styles of classrooms and how it can be used to accommodate the needs of special learners.

Mobile Learning Meets Tech Ed This is a website that I came across that has a collection of apps that could be used in the Tech-Ed Classroom.Measurement, Collaboration, Materials, and Design & Drawing. Most are related to Tech- Ed but some can be used in many places.

[|iPods In A Classroom: My] A teacher sat in on a fellow math teachers lesson. They noticed that it was a basic chalk and talk lesson. Most students were well behaved and listening and taking notes, a few would side chatter and then they noticed two students with only one ear bud in their ear. Those students were using their I pods in the class. After the observer talked to the teacher and found out that those two students were the top performers in the class. The idea of using iPods in class gives teachers a way to connect while giving students the opportunity to learn the ways they feel are best. Not everyone learns the same.