Twitter From the Coal Face: iPod Touch in the Classroom Today’s post features a number of Australian schools using iPods and iPod Touches in the classroom. Tania Hunt, ICT Coordinator at Baden Powell College, Derrimut Heath (Victoria), describes how her school has been using iPod Touches with literacy and numeracy groups and for problem solving. The tub of 8 iPod touches on loan to the class for the week comes with Power Docks and a number of recommended activity sheets. iPods are something I’m really enjoying using with my students. MORE >>

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While I wait for a decent Android tablet to ship (be it iPod touch or iPad sized), I’ll instead post here about the just released info on the iPhone 4 and its OS (iOS4). Well because in my state alone there are many many schools using the iPod touch to enhance learning. Perhaps of more interest from a school perspective is what the iOS 4 update will bring on June 21: iBooks – plenty of free books AND will soon be able to act as a standard PDF reader and bookshelf. The update will at least be free for iPod touches now! MORE >>

Want to point you all to this story published in major newspapers across Australia recently that gives a positive look at where tablets in Education are going rather than the ‘we did alright with pencils’ view thats often offered up. Just as tablets, iPods and other handheld devices are changing the way we do things at work and play, they’re changing the way students learn … and not always in the manner makers intended. year ago Apple amped up its iPad push into the education market with the launch of iBooks 2. MORE >>

Its hard to deny that in the book that tells how computing has become more and more mobile such that its already almost ubiquitous, the current chapter would be titled ‘tablets’. There are also education specific initiatives around Android tablets in the shape of the  Marvel/OLPC $99 project , and  India’s $35 slate. For a list of Android education apps though,  go here. Tags: Connectivism mobile/miniaturisation uLearning Android iPad iPhone iPod Touch mlearning mobile slate tablet ubiquitous WebOS Ok, so enough about the hype of devices. What can they do? MORE >>