Classroom in an Ipod
1. The article suggests that iPod video lectures are effective for '"kinesthetic learners", who tend to be hands-on, active, and require frequent breaks." Do you think that you would learn well using an iPod? Why or why not?
After reading the article on the iPod video lectures, I feel that it would be an actual great way to learn and I think I would learn w
ell with this program. These video lectures give a chance for people who do not pay much attention to seminars, to still learn on their own time whenever they wish to. I am one of those people who tend to miss a part of a seminar every now and then or actually not attend a seminar because of other needed purposes. This new program with the iPod can give me the seminar or class needed in the palm of my hands and make it possible to still "make" the seminar with such a busy schedule. As well, I am one of the "few" people who cannot hear the teacher at times and miss an important point, but with the seminar with a volume button, each word can be heard clearly as needed. Another point that can help me learn better using iPod video lectures would be that I can rewind and fast forward when needed, and talk to other students about the seminar itself. Rewinding and fast forwarding can help me get to points I do not understand and with no teacher in sight, I can ask other students to help understand certain points within the seminar. This creates a better insight and knowledge of the seminar and helps me, as a student, to learn more from the seminar than I can usually obtain. A disadvantage of this would be that we, as young students, may take our time to watch this seminar while as while watching television or on the computer. This would make us not get the whole seminar meaning, and cause us to become lazy and sloppy in this way.
2. An advocate for "v-casting" through the iPod says that: "It's more interactive and more self-directed." Do you think that Mary Ward, with its commitment to self-directed learning, should embrace such technology for education? What are some advantages or disadvantages?
I feel that Mary Ward should embrace this technology for education, because it can help the students become self-directed for several reasons but with these advantages, also comes negatives of course. One reason it would help our self-directed school, as noted before, would be that it helps the students, most with such busy schedules, have a way to never miss one seminar. It would help them to be able to go to each seminar and understand each surface of the topic, instead of missing out and doing not-to-good on their unit. This can also create some disadvantages though. One would be that the students may miss the whole seminar altogether and the teachers may have no idea of this. Another disadvantage would be we would not be able to participate with the seminar and not be able to receive handouts with problems to help us understand how to solve them. These are things to ensure we understand, and this leaves us only to use our imagination. Another reason that the iPod technology can help us as a self-directed school would be that it teaches us how to use our time outside and inside school. With seminars all in a handy dandy iPod that could be taken anywhere, it causes us to be able to use our time at home to be at a seminar or in a class. This would help our time management and us to be more self-directed because of how we sort our own time for each seminar. These are just a few examples of how this technology can help us as a self-directed school, even with the disadvantages that follow.
1. The article suggests that iPod video lectures are effective for '"kinesthetic learners", who tend to be hands-on, active, and require frequent breaks." Do you think that you would learn well using an iPod? Why or why not?
After reading the article on the iPod video lectures, I feel that it would be an actual great way to learn and I think I would learn w
ell with this program. These video lectures give a chance for people who do not pay much attention to seminars, to still learn on their own time whenever they wish to. I am one of those people who tend to miss a part of a seminar every now and then or actually not attend a seminar because of other needed purposes. This new program with the iPod can give me the seminar or class needed in the palm of my hands and make it possible to still "make" the seminar with such a busy schedule. As well, I am one of the "few" people who cannot hear the teacher at times and miss an important point, but with the seminar with a volume button, each word can be heard clearly as needed. Another point that can help me learn better using iPod video lectures would be that I can rewind and fast forward when needed, and talk to other students about the seminar itself. Rewinding and fast forwarding can help me get to points I do not understand and with no teacher in sight, I can ask other students to help understand certain points within the seminar. This creates a better insight and knowledge of the seminar and helps me, as a student, to learn more from the seminar than I can usually obtain. A disadvantage of this would be that we, as young students, may take our time to watch this seminar while as while watching television or on the computer. This would make us not get the whole seminar meaning, and cause us to become lazy and sloppy in this way. 2. An advocate for "v-casting" through the iPod says that: "It's more interactive and more self-directed." Do you think that Mary Ward, with its commitment to self-directed learning, should embrace such technology for education? What are some advantages or disadvantages?
I feel that Mary Ward should embrace this technology for education, because it can help the students become self-directed for several reasons but with these advantages, also comes negatives of course. One reason it would help our self-directed school, as noted before, would be that it helps the students, most with such busy schedules, have a way to never miss one seminar. It would help them to be able to go to each seminar and understand each surface of the topic, instead of missing out and doing not-to-good on their unit. This can also create some disadvantages though. One would be that the students may miss the whole seminar altogether and the teachers may have no idea of this. Another disadvantage would be we would not be able to participate with the seminar and not be able to receive handouts with problems to help us understand how to solve them. These are things to ensure we understand, and this leaves us only to use our imagination. Another reason that the iPod technology can help us as a self-directed school would be that it teaches us how to use our time outside and inside school. With seminars all in a handy dandy iPod that could be taken anywhere, it causes us to be able to use our time at home to be at a seminar or in a class. This would help our time management and us to be more self-directed because of how we sort our own time for each seminar. These are just a few examples of how this technology can help us as a self-directed school, even with the disadvantages that follow.
posted by m&m's; at 6:51 PM
1 Comments:
I agree, they are good for classrooms, however, one so easily distracted with paying attention to the teacher will also be easily distracted from not listening to music or playing iPod games rather than listening to a lecture.
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