Schools Using iPods to Teach

Amazing it took this long to figure out. Mp3 players are excellent learning tools. Teachers could post homework assignments on school websites in mp3 form, and some do. This would especially be useful in teaching language skills, or to distribute class lectures. Many colleges are getting in on this idea.
Many mp3 players are quite inexpensive. Too bad this program seems like someone is padding the expense somewhere. 300 iPods for $130,000 = $433 each. They could have bought 300 $79 mp3 players for under $24,000. Or bought one for every student in school for what they spent.
Granted, some of that money must have gone to curriculum software but it seems too expensive.

Next month, the Union City district will give out 300 iPods at its schools as part of a $130,000 experiment in one of New Jersey’s poorest urban school systems. The effort has spurred a handful of other districts in the state, including the ones in Perth Amboy and South Brunswick, to start their own iPod programs in the last year, and the project has drawn the attention of other educators...

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