An IPod Classroom?


IPods are meant as media players, to watch videos, and to play music. If the teachers decided to let all the kids in their classroom use their IPods to learn, there would be very little attention made towards the actual lesson. The reason I say this is because it's far to easy to be distracted when you're using something that can be used for entertainment as well as work. If work is introduced to an entertainment device, more people would tend to play rather than work, making it not such a great idea to learn through an IPod.

And so, it's easy to get tempted into watching a movie or playing some music while you're trying to concentrate on the lesson plan. Even in our school, we have access to computers. The computers are intended for work, but how many times do you see some kids playing some sort of Flash game like Line Rider or watching a video on video google? It's not a matter of it being self-directed it's a matter of whether or not to give kids a piece of paper they'll be able to concentrate on, or an entertainment device they'll be able to play with.