The article I read was called “Bedtime Stories Now Available on Children’s IPods”, by Melissa Rayworth. This article stated that Don Katz has a vision for delivering bedtime stories on iPods. About one third of children from age’s six to ten use iPods or other digital audio players on a regular basis. In March, AudibleKids.com was launched for children in order for them to download books onto their audio players. Katz says that “Listening is a powerful method to retain the meaning of the story and to turn people on to the concept of well-chosen words.” The American Library Association recommends reading to children every day, especially to those who are not yet in school. This group says that “The group says it's not just hearing the story that's important — it's connecting the words to the letters on a page, and eventually learning to read them.”
I think this is a good idea, however, I hope that it doesn’t interfere with children learning to read. Children could become too dependent on their digital audio players. But, Audio books could have potential to help young readers because they are listening to words that are realistically beyond their reading level in many cases. Not having just music on an iPod is neat to me, I really like the idea of having stories as well. At least parents know that children are learning something while listening to their iPods which could be a very good thing.
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I also made a post on this article. I do like the idea that these kids will be learning something valuable while listening to their ipods instead of just listening to music. It is no doubt that their are several potential benefits to having audiobooks on kids' ipods. However, like Laice points out, it is possible that students will become too reliant on getting their literature fix from an mp3 player rather than the classic in print type of reading (which has a more hands on, active nature to it then simply listening and not reading.)
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