Sunday, October 16, 2005

More On... Video-Playing iPods

Drexel University plans on giving the new video-playing iPods to their online masters students in higher education to podcast their research. Earlier this year Drexel University gave iPods to students in their School of Education.

As a practitioner in higher education and previous k-12 teacher, I see the critical need to get new technologies into the hands of our future teachers as quickly as possible.

While the students work with the new technology and apply it to their lesson plans these future teachers will begin to transform their lessons, not merely integrate technology. This will provide a rapid transformation of curriculum for their future students.
  • Video taping will assist student teachers in critiquing their lessons by allowing peer review as well as self-reflection.

  • Video taping lessons can be used in hybrid/blended and online education methods classes for student teachers allowing student teacher practicum’s to be viewed and reviewed by teachers and students at a distance.

  • Combining podcasts and video podcasts: Learning English by watching the instructor speak while listening to the spoken words.

This is just a beginning...There are so many more possibilities.

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