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Can Classroom IPod Usage Hike Student Attendance? It Worked for the Aussies!

by Tanya on January 05, 2009 at 9:38 AM Education News

We�ve heard of PCs and laptops being used to teach children; but a certain Oz school managed to get a class of year 8 students interested in studies using the ipod. The snazzy gizmo helped the children through a global "mobile learning" project.

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The students of Shepparton High School in central Victoria use the hand-held media players to search the web, do classroom quizzes, hand in homework assignments, research projects and collaborate online with students in Singapore.

Preliminary research on the program revealed that students were more willing to come to school, did more homework and used their iPods more than laptops or desktop computers.

Pupils also used the iPods lent by Apple, for science experiments and history classes.

Louise Duncan, the teacher who set up the project, said the devices were cheaper than laptops and allowed students to tailor information and stay focused in class.

"We assume that 14-year-olds are really technologically savvy, but they're often not," the Sydney Morning Herald quoted Duncan, as saying.

The project had also shown not all teenagers were comfortable in a digital environment.

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