Earlier, Mrs. Williams used the cart of iPod Touches with her Language Arts Class. They used the SAT® Vocab Challenge Vol. 1, by The Princeton Review [iTunes Link] by Modality, Inc. (Full Disclosure: I know the owner and his wife is the Mrs. Williams referenced in this article). After using some of the apps, the goal was to use the tool to interact with her Moodle course where there was a discussion forum for students to share what they thought about the use of the Touch. Here are a few of the responses as for the most part the students enjoyed them. Some did struggle with the virtual keyboard at first.

These images are taken from the Moodle Discussion Forum:

Tools that connect students to their learning is what we need more of. I think the comment by Eilene is very telling: “reminds me of having fun with friends and just hanging out, so it didn’t seem like school work”. Why does school work seem so much like school work?

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