What is the hard drive icon in my internal storage on my iphone for? Why can't I copy it to my computer?

Does anyone have an answer for this?

In the latest version of iTunes, the sidebar may be hidden.  That may be the confusion here, if you are used to the previous versions.  Since you said your shuffle is "in the dock," I assume you have a 2nd gen shuffle, so you are not a brand new shuffle/iTunes user.
To show the sidebar, from the menu bar, under View, select Show Sidebar.  With the sidebar showing, iTunes should work (mostly) like it did before.  You can drag songs from your iTunes Music library to the shuffle.

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