Two Peas in a Pod
iPods in Education Grant
Two Peas in a Pod
Summary
Need / Purpose/Goals
The population served will be all students in a teacher's classroom of thirty. Struggling students from ESL or Special Education will benefit a great deal since they can listen and watch over and over without any alienation. General population students will benefit from the inspiration to prepare for class and review material, and they can advance to more in-depth material and download it to their iPod for review and sharing with class.
Example assignments: Find key points from the video, find more related materials using the internet or do lesson activities in United Streaming that go with the videos, voice narrate the PowerPoints, and answer the quiz, review notes from the board saved to the iPod, preview and review class materials.
As students preview material they can also record their voice or others for interviews, etc. to gather information and research and produce media of their own as they are assigned. Assigned recordings can be downloaded by the teacher and added to the student portfolio.
Example assignments for recordings: Reading practice, vocabulary or spelling recite, interviews, field results, data collection, voice memos or summaries from videos previewed.
Currently few students learn on their own, research or even do their homework. Some of the reasons are that we expect them to do their homework in a paper and pencil fashion and today is the media age, so student would like to do their learning in the media fashion.
Rationale
This will help us fulfill our campus and district plans by implementing the use of more technology and increasing reading fluency, vocabulary, and depth of understanding. By addressing student learning with media, they will advance further and be more willing to learn and practice more on their own, taking ownership of their learning experience.
Objectives
Students will be able to do more in-depth learning in class.
Student will begin to build on prior knowledge.
Students will be able to hear and see the videos and class materials as many times as needed.
Procedures
Students will pick up the iPod after school preloaded with videos, PowerPoints, etc of the next weeks topics for class. They may have homework assignments such as record reading, record data found in the field or interviews. Weekly in the morning students are to return the iPod to the teacher before school. The teacher will re-load the iPod with new materials for the next week and collect the recordings into a student folder.