Thursday, September 25, 2008

Ipods For Instruction

I viewed quite a few websites that explain how helpful technology can truly be. Ipods, commonly known to be in the hands of people enjoying music now has seemed to help in other ways. Ipods can be used to help review classes and teacher discussions after the particular lecture.

On Duke's Ipod Site it describes how Duke University is giving their freshman class ipods to help them in school. One Spanish teacher is putting her lessons on the ipods so they can review them again if they feel they need to. Also they are having a native speaker read the four novellas that the students to read during the semester that way the students will be able to hear the correct pronunciation and accent in the text. I think this is a big foot forward on Dukes part and I hope this begins to happen in all universities.

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