I'm not quite sure what practical classroom applications it has yet, but the iPhone App, Dragon Dictation is pretty nice. It uses speech recognition to turn your spoken words into text, which can easily be copy/pasted into text messages, emails or anything else you can think up.
I suppose I could sell this as, if you have to text in the car, do this and stay alive for the sake of your students!
But seriously, just start this app up, tap the red button and speak. The app will process your speech and turn it into text. Touch the button in the lower right to copy it and then use it (see photos below). Simple and useful.
I've found that there is a learning curve-you have to enunciate your words very clearly for it to accurately pick up what you say (sometimes it still misses one or two), but all in all, it's a great tool-especially if you're driving and want to text without being quite so dangerous.
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