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class 676 continued Assignment 1

Article 4 **- iPods in the Classroom** located at: [] was a question and answer type article explaining how using iPods in the classroom would be useful and why educators should embrace this new technology. The article is concise and explains how various grades could use the iPods.

Article 5 - located at: [] is actually a Quicktime Movie showing a Special Education Classrooom and how they use the iPods in the classroom for test taking. The teacher is truly a facilitator helping those who need it and the other students are able to continue taking their tests without interruptions or waiting for their peers to "catch up". Something every classroom would benefit from using this tool in this way.

A 6th Article since #5 was a video - It was titled **iPods in early childhood: Mobile technologies and story telling**. It's located at []. Students were assigned the task of writing a short story for younger children and use various technologies including iPods to make the story. This demonstrates one more way to use the iPod. My class does make group stories which could then be downloaded into an iPod, but I would be using the iPod for that part. The children would then see our story as the finished product on a podcast.

A 7th article that show many people need to be informed that the iPod is more than a music thing is **Helium Education: Secondary School Schould iPods be allowed to be used during school time? 5 Articles** [] This article actually has five articles within the one. Some say yes, use iPods and some of the articles argue that the ipod would be a distraction. Most of the articles believed iPods are only music and movie devices or were only focusing on that one use of the iPods. I say perhaps they need to take a class like this to understand what uses an iPod has in education.