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Getting Started with iPod touch:
A guide for using iPod touch and iTunes for teaching and learning
Enhancing Classroom Learning
with iPod touch and iTunes
There is no shortage of ways you can use iPod touch and iTunes to support teaching
and learning. This chapter provides some example ideas for their use in the classroom.
Supporting Language Acquisition
iPodtouchoersawidearrayofengagingwaystoassiststudentsastheygain
languageskills.Studentsofallagescanbenetfromthemanylanguageacquisition
apps and resources available from the Apple App Store and iTunes Store. For example,
younger students can have fun while learning grammar and letter sounds with
animated apps while high school students can gain vocabulary expertise for college
entranceexams.StudentscanuseiPodtouchtoreviewashcardsforvocabularyin
abooktheyarereadingorforsightwordsforearlyreaders,withtheashcardseither
ready-made or created by you or your students.
Students who are learning a world language can download apps from the Apple App
Store to practice the language or look up words with translator apps. Using resources
available on iTunes U and the iTunes Store, they can listen to audio recordings, such as
the news in Spanish, and watch videos to learn words and phrases, hearing the proper
pronunciations. They can also record themselves using iPod touch or GarageBand
topracticethelanguageandimprovetheiruency.Usingthelyricsandalbumart
informationineachaudiolecanfurtherreinforcethelearningofanotherlanguage.
For example, if the text of what a student is listening to is pasted into the Lyrics portion
oftheaudiole,studentscanseeandhearthecontent.
Building Reading Fluency
Strugglingreadersdonotknowwhattheywouldsoundlikeasauentreader.You
can use iPod touch or GarageBand to record students as they read a passage, then edit
the recording in GarageBand by eliminating pauses and miscues so that the student
soundsasuentaspossible.SendtheeditedrecordingtoiTunesandsyncwithaniPod
touch. The student can listen to himself or herself reading naturally—that recording
then becomes the bar the student strives for when reading aloud.