Pedagogies
Select from the affordances below:
The iPod
Features of an iPod
- Voice recorder
- Read text documents
- Large hard drive capacity
- Record video
- View movie
- Play audio books
- Podcasts
- Contacts
- Calculator
- Music
- Record audio with external microphone
What can you do with an iPod in higher education?
- Create a playlist of oral histories of people in the community through interviews, for example, with authors or workers in the community.
- Conduct live interviews allowing interaction between a person in the ‘real’ world and the classroom, for example, with mentor teachers or authors.
- Create a guide, for example:
- Guide tourists around the ‘tree trail’ at UOW.
- Guide newcomers around the university as an orientation to their new surroundings.
- Students could liaise with a mentor using text, image and sound to enhance the interaction.
- Reflection tool where teachers (with mentors, other students or alone) playback lessons and make immediate observations and analysis, linking course material (theory, tutorial discussions etc) with their teaching decisions.
- Capture examples of practical classroom experiences and events (eg during practicum). These are then used as a stimulus for discussion and development of pre-service teachers’ understandings and skills of analysis in areas such as observation, assessment, explicit teaching practices or child directed learning.
- Language learning
- Collection of portfolio artefacts for analysis to inform understandings of the links between course material and classroom practice,
- Anecdotal record keeping about students