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 Teaching English with an iPads

The first innovative ELT application which I have found is teaching English with an iPads. As we are at the age of technology, we should benefit from those new technologies. They make our works easier. One of the best technologies is an iPads. As we know iPads are easy to carry and it has various functions. We can write, record and play games. It has also internet access with operator cards or WiFi. Students can bring their ipads in class and take notes with their iPad. Moreover, students can read stories from internet via their iPads. There are many sites that students can access to story books if they want to read. Moreover, it saves time and paper. With the help of iPads teacher can do their works easily and they will not lose much time. Moreover, both teachers and students don’t have to spend money for print outs. They can get rid of papers. Another advantage of teaching with an iPad is that it allows you to look up materials on the fly. While printing out your materials before you teach will limit you to those pages you planned on having (or even less if you are in a hurry and leave one or two of them in the printer), having your materials or textbook on the iPad gives you the freedom to move around as you see fit.  Besides, for students interested in learning through music, the obvious advantage of having the iPad is that through syncing you can access to your entire iTunes library. Songs can be selected to teach with, and the lyrics can be looked up and accessed online at the same time. They can store their loved songs in some storing sites like dropbox. Furthermore, they can learn English while playing games. Today, many games are in English language. They can find games appropriate to their ages. Moreover, there are many applications for iPads. Teachers can use those applications in various purposes.

**Comments ** It is true that this technique has advantages but in my opinion, the writer of this reflection thinks very optimistically and he misses some drawbacks of using such technology in the classroom. As it is obvious, I am not really in favor of using iPads or individual computers in any classroom because it can be a huge distraction for children. I do not think that children will listen to the teacher when they have the opportunity to surf on the internet, to play games, to chat with others and in such a case it would be very challenging for the teacher to monitor the class and make them focus on the lesson. Can you think of any other activity more attractive than surfing on the internet for a student? Another reason for me to object to this technique is finance. The writer says that not only the teachers but also the students do not have to waste money on print-outs in the case of the usage of iPads, yet there is such a contrast that an iPad costs much more than a pile of papers and every student may not have the financial opportunity to buy one. However, the usage of it outside the class can be encouraged by teachers because as the writer tells it is easy to carry and has access to internet and thus to a lot of educational material. If the teachers teach their students how to use iPads to learn English and encourage them, it could be a very useful technique.

Betül İLHAN The usage of technology is necessary for education field to increase success rate but using iPads has two important disadvantages in my opinion. the first one is about the price of those technological devices. They are very expensixe and some families cannot afford to buy iPads for their children and this will cause some problems in the classroom and between students because they will have knowledge about the socio- economic status of each other. The second disadvantage is about misuse of these technological devices. This techniqu aims to use iPads for education but the students will not take it seriously and use iPads for chatting and playing games.

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