iPods in Instruction

iPods are beggining to creep their way into schools and are becoming a very useful tool. After viewing this link, I can see just how useful iPods could be in a classroom. Duke University gave 1600 incoming freshman brand new iPods in the fall of 2004. This was part of their Digital Initiative. The students had access to many lectures and other helpful things through the iPods. They can access school information from these iPods. Many classes such as foreign languages, engineering, music and many others are incorporating the use of iPods into the classroom.

Duke University continues to give incoming freshman new iPods and the results have been phenomenal. According to this link, the academic uses for ipods were: course content dissemination, classroom recording, field recording, and study support. Sixty percent of the incomeing freshman reported that recording was the most widely used tool for academic purposes. A site that would be helpful in creating your own podcast to use for instruction can be found here.