New Ways of Learning

A new and improved way of learning has come to take place the old and boring traditional learning. IPods are not just for music and games anymore. Educational applications have been making students go haywire. I always wondered when a new type of learning was going to come in par. I was always bored with the old type of learning and traditional classes. Spicing it up with iPod learning applications is a great idea. The students at Somerset Elementary School in Minnesota have become very interested in Apple touch-screen media and handheld computers. IPods are starting to get more popular in U.S. schools for learning. For kids tapping, scrolling and swiping are more fun on a device rather than activities for math and spelling that are “boring”. Students show to be more engaged in learning suddenly when it is not paper and pencil. At the school the teacher passes around a laptop to have students download educational apps. The teacher one or more times during the week passes out the charged iPods and the students are excited because to them it is like playtime. Some people argue and are not convinced that students will not have a lasting educational value. Alex Silverman, a man who has thought high school students, is now an app developer has created a new app called eClicker. It allows the teachers and students to communicate with each other through the classrooms Wi-Fi network. This may also create a more interaction through class participation. The app only cost $25 for the teacher and its free for the students. "His students have a variety of learning disabilities that often cannot be overcome with regular teaching methods. But something as simple as a flash-card slide show on touch-screen iPods, with finger swipes for moving from one digital photo to the next, tends to electrify the kids." Suddenly a class of boring students turns into an interested and eager class to learn.
I am glad a new way of learning has finally come. I am already getting some of this new learning in my school now. A program called ISP. I hope we can integrate iPods in our class to.