Reflection of Podcast Use as an Effective Educational Tool
Assignment 12a, #14 by Dayna Moriarty
Knowledge: Podcast technology was recently introduced to me during EDCI 320 class. Although I found it to be a “cool” technology, I questioned the use of it for educational purposes.
Persuasion: I currently have a favorable opinion of integrating podcast technology within the classroom. I intend to receive a Reading minor upon graduation and realize that I can incorporate the use of podcasts to asses not only content and technology learning objectives, but individual student reading progress as well.
Decision: I have thought of some ideas in how to incorporate students’ use of podcasts for effective content objectives, discussions, and assessments.
Implementation: Podcasts could be used to establish a weekly “Classroom News Radio”. The teacher could incorporate this into basically any content material where a small number of students participate each week with their contributions. All students would be able to participate in this over the course of a month or two, depending on the size of the weekly producing group of students. An educator could also use this technology to record each student’s oral reading ability at the beginning of the school year and then again at the end of the school year. This could be used to assess oral reading skill improvement which may motivate the reader who doesn’t like to read out loud.
Confirmation: I have not had the opportunity to confirm my favorable decision regarding the use of podcast as an effective educational tool, but optimistically look forward to it in the future.
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I agree, podcasts can be a very cool learning tool when used appropriately. Your idea about a "Classroom News Radio" project would be an ideal application of a podcast for almost any content area. As you mentioned, podcasts of this nature can be useful not only as a teaching tool, but as an assessment tool as well. As you are, I am optimistic that podcasts will prove to be a valuable tool in future teaching endeavors.
-Zach M
Dayna,
I like how you used Rogers 5 step assessment framework to format your response. Also the use of Classroom News Radio sounds like a great emerging technology incorporating activity. Podcasts can be a great tool to foster the learners growth and also for the teacher to assess the student's and class' progress.
Charles T.
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