…well, at least they boost your grades.
An Australian study has confirmed what we all already know: that iPods (and other tech stuff) boosts your grades and helps you to learn more.
The Victorian Department of Education in Australia conducted a half-year of studies at Heathmont College using Apple solutions and found that using iPods and other technologies as study aids help both students and teachers to be active learners, and has improved test scores and pupil performance. They also had a more pronounced effect on kids who were socially isolated and/or had literacy problems. According to math teacher Sally Bodo at Heathmont, the studies led to “Improvements in all curriculum areas and also in behaviour, motivation and responsibility by the end of the project.”
So now you can tell your parents, in all honesty, to get you that iPod Classic because “it’s for school, Dad!”.
(Via Macworld.)
