After reading an article on Free Technology for Teachers, I was interested to look at upcoming technology to use in the classroom.
I found a blog about using iPods in the classroom to teach kids a concept, the concept of probability. IPods have really become popular since their first coming out. Apple continues to surprise us by the new ideas it keeps coming up with and producing for us. In the blog titled Using an iPod for probability experiments, a teacher in Australia tells her viewers about her experience with using iPods as a teaching tool. A free application called iChoose is available for anyone with an iTouch. This application allows people to choose anything from dice to cards to a coin toss to use as a probability problem. The teacher of this classroom allowed the students to use the application to run several experiments to see if their prediction about the probability of each problem were close to accurate.
I found this idea to be a great one. Students today are ready to use their iPods for anything, Internet, music, movies, and games. This creates a way for students to use something they enjoy with something they are learning. When these two are combined, the learning process become much more enjoyable for the student and then increases the learning. If it was made available, I would readily use this application to teach my students probability and other concepts.
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