http://clemmo.com/blog/2008/12/state-of-the-world/ Wes and Stace living the dream in Scotland Wed, 25 Aug 2010 09:38:19 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://clemmo.com/blog/2008/12/state-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1301 Shelley Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:35:03 +0000 http://clemmo.com/blog/?p=189#comment-1301 The school I was teaching at had a strictly no ipod policy, and I can tell you it made teaching a lot harder. Allowing students to use ipods when doing quiet individual tasks, meant that the students actually got on with their own work, with no talking or disruption to the rest of the class. It also meant that the students who needed one on one attention and help could get it without me stopping to quieten everyone, or focus just on behavioural issues. The only instance in which it was not effective (during individual tasks of course) was if people wanted to 'share' an ipod. That is a big nono. The school I was teaching at had a strictly no ipod policy, and I can tell you it made teaching a lot harder. Allowing students to use ipods when doing quiet individual tasks, meant that the students actually got on with their own work, with no talking or disruption to the rest of the class. It also meant that the students who needed one on one attention and help could get it without me stopping to quieten everyone, or focus just on behavioural issues. The only instance in which it was not effective (during individual tasks of course) was if people wanted to ‘share’ an ipod. That is a big nono.

]]> http://clemmo.com/blog/2008/12/state-of-the-world/comment-page-1/#comment-1300 gerrod Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:27:45 +0000 http://clemmo.com/blog/?p=189#comment-1300 ! !

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