Pedagogy and Podcasting: Exploring a New
Way to Connect with Your Millennial Students
Current Uses in Education
Current Uses
Podcasting
in Education
Teachers can record content to be automatically delivered to students;
students can record their own podcasts to share with others; puts students
in charge of when the what to listen.
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Students who have trouble following lectures—listen repeatedly at their leisure or while doing laundry, picking up the kids
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Native language is not English
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Gives students without backgrounds in certain topics a chance to catch up with more experienced peers
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Makes efficient use of class time—Classes heavy on information and light on class discussion? Students listen to podcast before class and class time can be used for discussion
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Missed lecture
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Tutorial
Disadvantages
of Podcasting
Discussion
Do you think you could/would use podcasting? How?
Additional Resources:
Burks on Learning provides lots of practical information about podcasts and other new technologies for educators.
Burks Selections are his effort to find a wide variety of podcasts on all aspects of technology and higher education.The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.
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Last Updated: 06/05/2006