To date the pupils have carried out several tasks, mainly based around them finding out about their learning styles, and how they might study to the best of their abilities.
Two pupils have been removed from the project due to poor work ethic within the project and across the subjects that they have been studying. This has had a positive effect on the other students within the project.
Interestingly these are both females, the other female pupils are responding well although they do not seem to use the technology as intuitively as the boys. An example of this is the ipods where given to students over Christmas to get used to using, the boys came back with loads of really cool widgets that they had put onto their ipods.
The pupils English teacher is really impressed with the students work ethic, he commented on how proactive the pupils are being towards their studies and is impressed with the functionality of the ipod for research based activities.
A big part of the project is changing the pupils attitudes towards their education and enabling them to take control of their studying and currently this appears to be happening.
The latest additions to the study skills library is a selection of revision resources. These include English Poetry Revision section, which I am going to get the pupils to add audio pod cast of the poem. To go with the English revision I have put together some science revision resources, based around the exam, the main issue that I have had with this is that I have some excellent resources which use flash, but these will not be able to be viewed by pupils.
Set on maths revision resources
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I should have written this before and I will try now to keep a weekly reflection of the project and the activities that I have set the pupils.
I introduced pupils schoolbuk and how to use it on the ipod. It was a good training session which I used a combination of desk top computers and the ipod (The training took 75 minutes which was less time than I had expected.) The session also included introducing pupils to the project and setting clear expectations of what they would be required to do.
The First Activity that pupils had to do was to find out what coursework they have outstanding and which subjects they have got exams in. Students responded well to this activity and it gave them an opportunity to speak to their teachers to find out exactly where they are within each of their courses.
Teacher that I spoke to also commented on the politeness and maturity that the students approached this task.
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This is my first entry from my ipod touch!
Takes a while to get used to the keyboard, but you get quicker with use.
What is the itouch learning project about? The aim is to use a "blog" style interface to deliver a study skills programme, from jan to july 2008.
The students will have to reflect on their revision and the study skill each week on their blog.
Each student will be provided with an individual study plan to follow which will be reviewed every 3 months.
I will post more as the project develops and the flipping swearing filter is very cleaver!
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