Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Podcasting and its implications in the classroom.
Since we are about to learn about podcasts in the following sessions I decided to get a head start and see what podcasting is all about and how can it change instruction and learning. Podcasting according to Wikipedia is a series of digital media files, either audio or video, that are released episodically and often downloaded through web syndication. How can we integrate such a device into Education? Well, according to Literacy News (http://www.literacynews.com/2010/01/ilearning-using-an-ipod-to-educate/) podcasting can be used as an alternative to way of studying as lecture notes, book chapters and lectures can be recorded for playback by the student. The audio books are also another good feature of podcasting as it gives students the option of hearing a story while engaging in another activity or just simply hearing the story which is considered reading. The article also goes on to say that it can help students to illustrate what they have learnt using a different medium of expression as they can use it to do projects. In the area of reading it can be used by the teacher to demonstrate fluent reading.
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Hi candy101
ReplyDeleteSeeing that you are dealing with the subject of podcasting, I wish to suggest a very useful site which was given by Will Richardson. It is the Education Podcast Network (tinyurl.com/66grdx)which houses different education-related shows.
Also to add to the uses of podcasting in the classroom Richardson (2010) proposes the following:
1) Teachers can use it to publish daily practice lessons.
2) Social studies teachers can use it to have their students do oral histories, interviews, or reanactments of historical events.
3) Science teachers can have students narrate labs or experiments
4) Foreign language teachers can record stories in a foreign language and have students answer the questions in that language, hence they get more accustomed to hearing the spoken foreign language.
Thank you Avril especially for the latter part of that comment as it is applicable to me. Will try to see if I can indeed utilise it in my foreign language lessons.
ReplyDeleteHello Candace, I also focused on the importance of podcasting, and I definitely identify with your contribution. In addition,some of the pedagogical uses of educational podcasts include:
ReplyDeletei. it facilitates distance learning
ii. it allows in the remediation of slow learners
iii. it facilitates self- paced learning
iv. it provides advanced or highly motivated learners with extra content
v. it allows for differentation and project based learning
I hope that is is beneficial.
ADESH