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Through this week’s reflection, the group’s OER brought me to wrap my head around podcasting.
Provided these reflection questions, I put my thoughts on the line:
Considering what you already know about podcasts and podcasting, we invite you participate in one of the following discussions:
- Recommend one podcast: give a brief one to two sentence summary of the podcast’s focus and a brief statement as to how you understand it’s educational value.
- Highlight some of the benefits and challenges of Podcasting in the Classroom? Consider the consumption vs creation of podcasts by students and teachers?
I haven’t been a fan of podcast in the past, but through this exercise, I found a few interesting reflection/discussion. Some of the benefits are mentioned up here (accessibility, learner centered, free stuff, etc.) One that I found, http://www.jackstreet.com/jackstreet/WEDC.Chat1-12-16.cfm (Personalized Learning Versus Age-Based Instruction), from Bam!EdchatRadio. It talks about Education, comparing personalized learning vs age-based learning, which reprsents many of our classrooms now. I found it was relevant to think about personalized learning today. This one is more oriented towards teachers. It offers flexibility to the listener. They can pause and play the podcast; play it on their own device, when and where needed.
Now, I think some advantages to podcast are the control the learner has over this piece. This podcast is talking about personalized learning and I believe it does support this reflection where the educator have access to learning on demand andhe pick what he needs. I belive this is one aspect of podcast that is interesting.