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shared by Mike Fisher on 30 May 10 - Cached

shared by Brian C. Smith on 24 Mar 09 - Cached

While I think the iPod Touch could be an excellent learning tool (my iPhone certainly is), I’m also the resident curmudgeon about such things so naturally I have a few concerns about this initiative.
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it’s clear that many people around here are looking at the iPod Touch the same way they do our current laptops.
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Almost exclusively we use computers as group technologies. We have a bunch of them in a lab and then bring in a bunch of kids to use them for some teacher-designed activity.
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They are designed to be customized, personalizing the user’s experience so, instead of everyone seeing the same desktop, we all see ourselves in the device.
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However, the iPod Touch, and other pocket computing devices, are intended for personal use.
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We just need to find people who are already using these devices in our schools (our IT department sees several thousand a day on the network) and invite them to tell us how they use their iPod Touch.
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And the few instructional examples noted in the article are pretty much the same as some of the very superficial whiteboard lessons I’ve observed.
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