Podcasting in the Classroom
This posting refers to an online commentry entitled ‘Integrating podcasting into your classroom’ by Colette Cassinelli, Technology Evangelist (2007).
In this commentry, the video quotes the following statement from Mark Prensky: ‘Our students today are all “native speakers” of the digital laguage of computers, video games and the internet… our digital immigrant instructors, who speak an outdated language, are struggling to teach a population that speaks an entirely new language’. The issue that this commentry then addresses is how teachers can learn this new foreign language and then use it within the classroom. By using a program such as Garageband (for Macs) or Audacity (for PC’s) students can make their own radio stations programs. In these programs, students can interview famous people (acted out by other students), recite a poem that they have written, give a verbal account of something that they see, and so much more. Podcasting can be a way by which students teach students about a particular subject, or even communicate with students from another school across the other side of the world. For someone who for the first time only recently made a podcast, I think that it has many uses in the new age classroom, and I cannot wait to have the opportunity to test it out.
