Using MP3 Players in the Classroom

Workshop Number: 3

Presenter:
Allison Barr, TF Alumna

Description:

Why ban IPODs and MP3 players from the classroom when you can use them to teach instead!? Almost every adolescent already owns this piece of technology, so let’s put it to work for you! This workshop will focus on ways to incorporate 21st century skills into YOUR classroom by using MP3 players. Participants will learn how to utilize class web pages to post downloadable study guides, read alouds, and teacher lectures for adolescents. The workshop will also discuss how to reach struggling elementary readers with take home book recordings, reader’s theater, and phonics practice. This small and inexpensive piece of technology can improve your reading instruction and content area lessons. Come see how your student’s favorite music player will motivate them to LEARN!

Curricular Areas:
K-8, All subjects

Presenter Details:
Allison Barr is a Teaching Fellows graduate and has earned her Masters in Reading Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She has taught in Charlotte, NC for 5 years. During her time in the classroom, Allison worked with a diverse population of students as well as many struggling readers. She saw the need for good literacy practices across the curriculum and the excitement technology could bring to students and teachers alike. Allison has presented her ideas of using MP3 player technology in the classroom at the North Carolina Reading Conference in March 2010.