Nowadays many students’ best friend is their ipods instead of backpack. I see my students take any chance they can get during class break time to listen to it. It becomes a habit now and I am just wondering: Can they live without it?
We hear that cows can produce more milk when listening to music, but students don’t seem to produce more work in good quality when they listen to their ipods. While we are using ipods for education purpose, I wonder if it is good or bad. When they get tired of ipods, do we have to use other media to stimulate their interest? What if they cannot be stimulated any more? Most of us grew up learning many things without any help from advanced technologies. Now when we face new technologies, we feel excited about using them and wish we could have those in the old days. Our students are surrounded by technologies, but in the mean time, technologies are becoming a big distraction.
Good or bad, as educators, we face the challenge how to make the best use of technologies to serve the education.
