“The student at Somerset Elementary School in Mendota Heights is one of many enthusiastic about the Apple touch-screen media players and handheld computers. The devices are becoming fixtures in U.S. schools as educators become aware of the various applications that can be installed on the gadgets to help students learn,” Ojeda-Zapata reports.
“At Somerset and other schools in the West St. Paul-Mendota Heights-Eagan district, for instance, the iPod Touch has taken classrooms by storm,” Ojeda-Zapata reports. “For kids there, math and spelling activities that used to seem, well, boooring have a sudden allure on an iPod. This was clear on a recent morning in a room filled with students raptly tapping, scrolling and swiping.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kendall C.” for the heads up.]
We it can’t be any good “because it doesn’t have a keyboard”.
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“more newer” ???
@daugav369pils:
Its the new journalistic-integrity-thingy. You know, the one where you don’t have to be grammatically correct.
silverwarloc,
It’s actually a direct quote from the student. You know, the kid who is in 4th grade and doesn’t necessarily know he’s not grammatically correct.
“iPod Touch is a fun way to learn, in part because it’s ‘something that is more newer than paper,'” Julio Ojeda-Zapata reports for The Pioneer Press.”
Come on, More Newer? Gez no wonder our kids can not speak or write correctly.
Not that I am an expert! Just my 2¢
@Tony But are not the teachers supposed to screen what they write to help them?
Give ’em time. Once the novelty wears off they’ll realize it’s all just a dirty trick to make them learn something.
Yes, but can the kids do mental arithmetic?
“This was clear on a recent morning in a room filled with students raptly tapping, scrolling and swiping.” You’re sure the kids weren’t just playing games? Or maybe looking at p—-.
That was the fourth-grader Gabe Rivera’s statement. Though he should be learning grammar and spelling also.
Wait til they get the new tablet – they will feel as though they went forward and backwards 100 years in one jump!
Sure they like their iPods now. But next year they’ll want the iSlate because it is more newer.
“something that is more newer than paper”
Besides the painful grammar, how many things aren’t “more newer” than paper?
I guess rocks are “less newer”
Just wait. Next year they’ll want something more snappier.