Podcasts are not my favourite web tool. I am a visual learner and therefore my schema
doesn’t lend me to audio recordings particularly well. However, podcasting would certainly be useful
in the classroom. As Prensky points out
in his article “Engage Me or Enrage Me”,
students of today are very techno savvy and therefore embrace these types of
tools to link them to the learning within the classroom. Using both visual and auditory tools then
engages the whole brain so that students can get the most out of the
experience.
Podcasts would be good for students to do verbal reviews
of books, films, or excursions, report on activities in the classroom, and even
speaking a journal. The audio part of
the podcast would be a great way to develop communication confidence in those
students who may not be very good with written language.
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