Cohort A 2012-13

Another interesting use of the ipod would be to use it to help teach English to language learners. This site talks a bit about how it can be helpful for pronunciation, listening and speaking. Students can hear a native speaker and work on their own pronunciation, repeating what they hear on the ipod. They can also, pause, rewind, etc. which is more difficult to do and tiring for an actual physical person to do (repeating phrases over and over). This way kids don't have to feel guilty if they don't get something right away, and they don't have to feel like they are bothering their tutor by asking them to repeat.

This websites offers a testament of third and fourth grade classes implementation of iPod touches to work on their reading fluency.

This website has a few different ideas for using an Ipod touch in literacy. If you scroll down to the section labeled "reading fluency" an activity in which the students records themselves reading, is described. What I like about this activity is that after recording the student uses a "How did I do" chart to analyze their reading. They then record again and assess their reading fluency to see if they have improved.

An example of an action research project being implemented in an elementary classroom is given. Several uses for improving reading fluency are provided, relating to recording student's reading and downloading apps to use in the classroom to assist with individual student needs.

Fairly basic 1:49 video to demonstrate IPOD application for practicing reading by students. Recording function on the IPOD allows students to playback their voices and, if desired, send the recording to a teacher for review.