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Hearing aid: Practical classroom tech

When working with large numbers of students and computers or devices in a music classroom, hearing pupil work is always a compromise. Tim Hallas looks at some possible solutions.
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Getting students to share their work is a common tool for peer assessment and a good way to provide them with opportunities to show their work to one another. However, once pupils start to use computers or devices, sharing work with the class becomes much trickier. The builtin speakers in tablets and computers tend to be so poor that it is very difficult for them to be heard in a classroom and headphones don't offer much of an alternative in this situation. Obviously, if students are using portable devices they can just bring them to the front to connect to the main classroom speakers – but what if the classroom has desktop computers in it? These can't easily be moved and there needs to be another solution.

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