The effort has spurred a handful of other districts in the state, including the ones in Perth Amboy and South Brunswick, to start their own iPod programs in the last year, and the project has drawn the attention of educators from Westchester County to Monrovia, Calif. Next month, the Union City district will give out 300 iPods at its schools as part of a $130,000 experiment in one of New Jersey’s poorest urban school systems.
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The problem, of course, is that once the technology is available, it’s hard to control what it gets used for.Īnd Tuesday’s New York Times tell us of schools using iPods educationally, while at the same time limiting their use for entertainment: A ban on iPods is so strictly enforced at José Martí Middle School that as many as three a week are confiscated from students - and returned only to their parents.īut even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the school here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs. Professor Coyne says that the laptops are seldom used to take notes for class - in fact, some actually have a note-pad next to their laptops for that - and that the web-surfing, email, and instant messaging that they are used for distracts the students from the lecture and discussion. On Tuesday’s All Things Considered, NPR talked with law professor Daniel Coyne, who tries to discourage laptop use in his classroom.
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Two related items have come up in the news lately. I’ve written before about computer technology in classrooms, here, about using high-tech white-boards, here, about giving laptops to high-school kids, and here, about using blogging as a teaching tool.