iPod Touch in the Classroom

By Leslie Buteyn

Teachers know they have to engage their students in order to make learning meaningful, but finding ways to do this can be a challenge. Is using everyday technology, like the iPod Touch, to deliver content a simple solution to that problem?

At TCEA in February 2010, a group of teachers from Mansfield ISD presented on the iPod Touch Initiative in their school district and their experiences with incorporating hundreds of iPod Touches into the classroom. They explained that the iPod Touch offered active, individualized, and customized learning using both games and content delivered via the iPod Touch.

Do you have experience using the iPod Touch in your classroom? How does it work for you? Do you use it to deliver content? Do students play educational games? What are your must-have apps?

iPod Touch Users, We Want to Hear From You!

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Leslie Buteyn is tasked with developing products from the idea phase to the marketplace and is responsible for managing the development of many of PCI Education’s bestselling products. She has developed products for students from preschool age to adult in all subject areas.

Prior to her career at PCI, Buteyn was a middle school language arts and reading teacher in San Antonio. She holds a Bachelor’s in English and a Master’s in Teaching. Both degrees were earned at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.