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The Ipod

He walked into the room and quietly laid his books on a table. Class would begin in about three minutes, and soon the teacher drone on something irrelevant to their lives. Entirely removed from their environment, gadgets ears plastic flow in the words that resounded repeatedly in the head, chanting the ideas he has heard about sex and violence and crime – and women. Vulgarity and obscenity had always been forbidden in the mainstream media of States United were now a daily part of your life – a ritual – since he was six years old.

He could play rap refrain in his brain without the aid of an iPod, one of the most popular toy known post-9/11 play teenagers. But the iPod somehow gave him power. The iPod had increased it. He had become the last of the grandchildren of baby boomers use technology Boomers had only dreamed of: the music you choose, you take your music, music you hear your whim! High schools and middle schools, however, have joined the hippest of all generations of music in promoting iPod fashion, school officials approved very few of them, let them, or use them. The acceptance of iPods in American high schools has grown equals acceptance of the transistor radios of the 1960s, when the children were crossed over to schools to hear the World Series (played during the day, at the time). The existing radios – were certainly there – but most school officials simply shrugged their shoulders in an almost acceptance of the new technology of the time. He had become old, "If you can not beat them, join them" attitude. And I was listening to the World Series — U.S. Interests, after all – it really so bad?

As a teacher, I loathe the use of iPods in school for three main reasons:

1. But altering the concentration of children. Students should be thinking about what is happening at school – ideas about algebra, government, and Whitman – Bout last Snoop Dog is not in jail or in Eminem's latest confrontation with firearms and police. At least, they should look to school "Statement Vision "- no one can understand its importance – that is stuck in the walls of every classroom.

2. They lose. IPods bureaucratic nightmares about lost tend to frustrate the benefits of being always connected to the sorrows of young offenders on the whores regret standing up and his homies talk shit to them.

3. I'm afraid. Not literally scary, but the fact of knowing – or having a good idea – What you hear in the headphones at any moment is enough to rattle nerves. I might try to deny my assumptions more subjective and pretend as if listening to my students to the Righteous Brothers, but I feel that he is not cheating myself for a long time.

Okay. I'm probably too severely abuse around the presence of portable music devices. After However, we have all used at one time or another, in fact, when I go to the gym, I wear a headset while you exercise. Admittedly, I listen to AM radio show that took while tears lovin 'out of most teenagers, and, indeed, a large protruding antenna in the air outside the front of the headset makes me look a Martian – but wear a headset. I told my students that when they are in my class are not allowed to even show me an iPod (or other device), before, after or during class, unless one of those spiky antennae.

Naturally, they laugh. But I'm serious.

The new technology has been both a boon and a bust for modern educators. He seemed to endanger the effectiveness of educators, some of the most modern advances have presented thorny problems. Technology has always presented an enigma, a whole series of contradictions, paradoxes and hypocrisy, for example, one of the most striking developments of modern man has been the invention the car. Who can imagine today's world without cars? Besides transporting pleasure, the whole economy now depends on the materials transported by vehicles on wheels, however, a couple of million Americans have died in car accidents since the early 1900s. In the last decade, 10,000 teenagers died in the United States in car accidents that members of the military who died during the 10 years of the Vietnam War.

At a micro level, consider modern adolescents: I've thought very hard on this, and I do not remember much progress on the pop culture technology – With the exception of television, of course – that had affected adolescents before the advent of VHS and CD players. The needle on the record player of my generation was very good, but in the seventies of the needle age driven gramophone began to decline with the arrival of eight new track tape systems. From this moment on, technology – especially in relation to media and communication – has accelerated at an impressive pace, many other old codgers have not achieved well.

And when writing about iPod – or just talking with fellow teachers – that is exactly what I want: an old man.

My students laugh at me when I tell them my opinion on music technology. In the seventies, when stereo for the first time a major problem, he had said, "Hmm … I'm not sure if I like that sound." "Why?" Seventy children had asked incredulously. "Well, there's something to say about the music that is filtered through a single speaker. The sound is stronger, more complete, in fact, to my old doo-wop records, I like the sound scratchy record player produces. Without the grating sound, simply not be the same. "What, of course, was the starting point for these children. They do not want to be the same! The same was out. Music Stereo roared the whole school. In those days, if not "stereo", you were a total geek, homosexuals in the Marines received more pleasant treatment.

In modern machines actually sounded better, my arguments for the old mono echoed hollow sounds. I could no longer justify not use of at least eight track tape player, even bought a car, a brand new Mercury Cougar, with a hint of eight! How I smiled coldly self-assigned every time I put one of those tapes at large huge insertion slot near the bottom of the cover of the tape! My semimastery of technology modern music gave me my moments of fashion as a high school teacher, after all, I was using their machines to play my music! And what could be Hipper than that? Some of my students – who then were not much younger than me – although he liked the same musicians: Gordon Lightfoot, Dan Fogelberg, and Cat Stevens. Not only shares in the technology for music playback, we had the same tastes in music as well! What a glorious moment!

Unfortunately, I could not follow: not music, not technology, not with the voracious appetite for new things teenagers. It progressed rapidly from tape deck CD player multisystem sounds of the world, while I still tinker with my disc player, hoping I could catch Radio Shack at the right time for a new needle and, unfortunately, Radio Shack store needles stopped, and again it was at the height of technology.

Such Once this has been the source of my hostility to the iPod. I do not know how to put music on the dang thing to begin with, let alone playing when I go to the gym! While I am with my wife and children, listening to an iPod would be a definite no no. You can not teach an old dog new tricks.

I am definitely an old dog.

And these are definitely new tricks.

© 2008 Bruce J. Gevirtzman

Author Bio

Bruce J. Gevirtzman is an English teacher who has also, for 34 years, served simultaneously as a sports and debate coach. Also chief playwright for Phantom Projects, an acclaimed young A theater group has performed in several western states, Gevirtzman has written and directed over 30 theatrical productions. He has appeared on NBC and PBS, and the Los Angeles Times. Gevirtzman directs educator workshops focused on problems of adolescents. His book, an intimate understanding of U.S. adolescents are available August 2008 from Praeger Publishers.

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