Headphones and Headsets

Classrooms can be noisy places with students sharing ideas and collaborating with one another, and teachers exchanging information with students and answering their individual questions. Headphones and headsets are ideal for improving concentration and blocking out background noise.

Headphones

Headphones are ideal for students wanting some quiet time to focus on solitary work, audiobooks or listen back to recordings of lessons. Headphones can also make education more inclusive. For students with hearing impairments, headphones can make all the difference in being able to understand what is being said by the teacher.

As well as making it easier for all students to focus, headphones are ideal for meeting the needs of student’s preferred learning styles. Some students learn better by having information repeated to them and listening to revision notes, lessons and textbooks. This learning style is known as auditory and using headphones meets the needs of these learners perfectly.

For students who have a visual learning style, headphones can be used as a supplement to visually presenting information. Watching educational videos with headphones makes it easier to concentrate on the content.

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Kinaesthetic learners prefer doing things to learn. Headphones can be useful for giving clear instructions to students before taking part in activities. Headphones can also make education more fun by making it possible to incorporate music or games into children’s lesson plans.

Headsets

Headsets are slightly different to headphones in that they have a microphone attached to the headphones and so are ideal for focus during collaborative work if everyone is not in the same place or if there is too much background noise to hear each other clearly.

Headsets provide all the benefits of headphones but with the additional advantage of a microphone for a two-way conversation. For students needing to work from home or for distant learning courses, these are a crucial piece of equipment.

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With over 15 years' of experience in supplying equipment to schools, the team of professionals at Douglas Stewart will help advise on which type of headphones and headsets are best for your school, college or other educational facility. With the help of a supplier like Douglas Stewart, who has extensive experience in the sector, you can rest assured that you’re buying the right school and office software tools. Contact us at sales@dstewart.eu or call 01252 612806 to find out more.