This document discusses the use of iPod Touches in education. It notes their ability to provide audio input, adjust playback speed, record audio, and display pictures/scripts. It outlines the release history of iPods and their popularity. The document argues that a decentralized approach best incorporates iPods through peer sharing and fitting user needs. It recommends professional development, personal use, and tech support to facilitate classroom adoption. Potential educational uses include podcasts, audiobooks, videos, and project-based learning.

1. Taranah Page
Walden University

2.  Due to the rise of technology within schools
it has become inevitable for the traditional
cassette player or voice recorded to be
replaced by this piece of technology they call
the I Pod Touch.

3.  Provide students with audio-only
comprehensible language input
 Time Stamp Counter
 Ability to slow down or increase the rate of
speech
 Audio Recording Capacity
 Audio Plus Pictures and Script
 Video
 Audio/Video Plus Script

4. I Pod product line introduced by Apple in
October 2001
 September 2007 Apple released the I Pod
Touch First Generation
 September 2008 Apple released the I Pod
Touch Second Generation
 September 2009 Apple released the I Pod
Third Generation

5.  Easy to use
 Long battery life
 Small
 Old models can be updated
 Lots of apps

6. S-Curve for iPods
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Quarterly Sales by Year Series1

7.  Apple followers
 “People with deep pockets”
 Tech Geeks that buy anything new

8.  Traditional People
 Anti Apple
 PC Users
 People who fear science
 Uneducated

9.  The decentralized approach works best with
the innovation of the IPOD into the classroom
for the following reasons:
 Innovation is spread by horizontal network among
peers
 More likely to fit with users needs
 Users feel a sense of control

10.  Hands on experiences
 Professional Development
 Personal Use
 Allow teachers to take them home and become
familiar.
 Time Saver
 Show teachers the in and outs of I Pod apps.
 End Notes
 Classroom Management Apps
 Students interest
 I Pod are trendy among the student population.

11.  Professional Development
 Department based
 Start with the teachers then students
 Teach the teachers first then students!
 Tech Help
 Online
 Phone
 Hands on

12.  Pod Casts
 Audio Books
 Photos
 Videos
 Project Based Learning

13.  Abiri, Sagi “Apple’s Last Stand?” MIT Sloan School of
Management, Spring 2005
 McQuillan, Jeff “iPod in Education: The Potential for
Language Acquisition”. Fall 2006
 “iPod Personalizes Language Learning.” Apple Education
website.
http://www.apple.education/profiles/gradisland.
 “The Development of the Ipod Touch”
http://kochtech.neatau.net/ipod/The_Development_Of_T
he_Ipod_Touch
 http://t4.jordan.k12.ut.us/t4/content/view/212/37/