Podcast Clip

Podcasts

This article was a little bit disappointing, as I have become accustomed to reading articles with the results that the researchers had hoped for.  However, I think the article still proved something! Although the podcasts may not help more than a traditional textbook practice, they certainly help equally.  I wouldn't favor a class that was all textbook based or all podcast based! This study helped me to see the value of a podcast as one of my many teaching resources.  I really enjoy podcasts in a non-educational context (I've been listening to Dirty John all morning), so I could see how they benefit different types of learners as well.  I had never thought about podcasts for language learning, but I could definitely see how it benefited these students in learning English.  It really got me to thinking about learning Spanish with podcasts.  It's really interesting as well to think about the oral literacy students become engaged in when they are listening to a podcast.  I’ll be interested to look for math podcasts as I’m getting into lesson planning, but I know that if I end up in a science classroom there will be a lot of podcast support for my lessons! I hope that my peers and I can become leaders in the future generation, using new methods like these to support our students' learning.

Reflection

I think that our presentation today went really well! We chose a really good picture to break up, and the class seemed really excited about what was going on in the pictures, much like future classrooms would be.  They also seemed engaged in the idea of looking towards the future-suggesting possible concepts/units that would follow the picture we showed.  Something I would have added to the lesson would be having guiding questions prepared when showing the students.  We had talked about one or two beforehand, but it would have been even better if we had students thinking outside of the box instead of following the lesson strategy to the tee.  I also would have fully done one of the strategies in the demonstration.  I didn't want to spend a ton of time on it, but I think it caused confusion that we only used one picture and it wasn't broken up.  A better solution would have been to do a mini sequence strategy, and quickly run through three pictures with Danjela.  I also wish we would have written down students ideas throughout the presentation, and had a spot within our presentation where we address the ideas they had earlier after the big reveal.  These are all really small things, and I do want to emphasize how successful I thought this was.  I love the strategies this book has because they all do such a wonderful job getting students engaged in learning, and I do believe our presentation as well as the strategy we presented encompassed that idea.