#  Modern Hebrew and iPads 

 





April 03, 2013

 

 

In the fall of 2012, students in second-year Modern Hebrew piloted an iPad project that combined all their handouts, worksheets, exercises, and review materials into a digital format. The goal was to allow students to review materials anywhere at any time, take self-correcting quizzes, review material that could be updated instantly by course staff, bring text files to life with native speakers and pop-up definitions, and make for a much more interactive and enriching experience.

ATG staff created an interactive iBook, an online flashcard interface, and an enhanced mobile-ready course website. They also oversaw the purchase and distribution of loaner iPads for this pilot.

Students reported the following benefits from this project:

- Spent more time reviewing the documents then they have in the past with paper formats
- Increased comprehension by listening to native speakers
- Digital flashcards were used more often and with greater impact than the paper ones they would have had to create themselves
- Greatly increased their typing proficiency, as the keyboard layout on the iPad can be instantly changed to Hebrew, something impossible on a laptop
- Were able to take quizzes that self-corrected instantly
- The organization of the materials is superior to what existed as paper handouts
- Having the added advantage of being able to use the iPad in many other ways (for email, web browsing, installing other apps)
- Liked the “green” aspect of the large amount of paper handouts that they now didn’t have to get

More on this project can be read about in [this Harvard Crimson article](http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/10/2/Hebrew-class-uses-ipads/).



 

 

 



 

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