Any precedents for iPods in class?

I have to go with the school on this one. Unless one's using a pair of IEM, In-Ears phones, the person next can hear u cranking it up, OK not u but *somebody* will.

Yeah it suxs, just move quickly to college, where u can DO ANYTHING short of yelling Fire!

I'm going to have to side with habs and bobb on this one as well. Mp3 players are banned from the school I went to as well, if you were even seen with them it'd be confiscated. So many people would tune out the teacher and blare it, resulting in other student's not concentrating. Plus the school doesn't want to be liable if they're stolen.

I'm with jhollington on this one. There's no reason for you to use your iPod during school. If you can't concentrate without listening to music, you need to work on that.

Personally, having and listening to my ipod in class helps me focus and concentrate. My school like many others being headed my narrowminded dip####s finds it necesary to completely ban all mp3 players, even from personal study in the library. Im trying to write a report/letter to the principal detailing why they should be allowed and im looking for any precedents or tests conducted somewhere that would support my theory that ipods are a helpful tool in the classroom, thanks. edit*should have placed in sub-forum, woops*

if you're only talking about personal study time, then that's better than in a class, but most will just sit there nodding away at their music than actual study. if hoards of people have ipods between classes then no doubt some will be listening in class - they'll no doubt be serving me in mcdonalds when they leave.

it's actually more to do with safety than that, if there's announcements, fire drills... & they make the rules, you don't - this is something to be accepted if you aspire to be working somewhere that has a chain of command (above you, no doubt) even at the fast food place ;)

I am a teacher. The last western school I worked at did not ban mp3 players outright, but allowed teachers to set their own rules. These were mine...

1) no iPods in the workshop. Just too much stuff going on there.

2) You must ask my permission before using them, and obey that. If you did not I would take it, hand it to the office, and your parent/guardian would have to come and get it.

3) If I did allow it these rules applied:

a) If I am talking and you still have either earbud in, that was the end of your chance, so you had to have the volume low enough to hear me start talking and yank them out as soon as I did.

b) I was allowed to listen to your music. If I said it was too loud, then you had to turn it down. If this happened twice, you had to turn it off.

c) If any others around you could hear your earbuds it was too loud.

d) You must remove your earbuds before talking.

I found this invaluable, as it kept the talkers quiet, either they or their friends had music. I recommended during parent teacher interviews that some parents buy one for their talkative kids.

It only worked for some classes though. It did not work in discussion classes. As I alluded to above, this was not workable for workshop classes, due to safety reasons.

However, much of my teaching was math. I did little on the board, preferring to help kids one on one, letting the fast ones go at their own pace, and spending most of my time helping the slower ones. Anything that cut down on their non-work related interaction with others, while in class, increased their learning.

I even managed to convert a few to Rockbox :)

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