Monday, October 26, 2009

Podcasting in Education

Podcasting is making it's way into the K-12 education classroom. However, with the push for accountability and high stakes testing, some would argue that this technology has no place in the classroom. Referencing the Montana Technology Content Standards, support the use of podcasts in K-12 education.

12 comments:

Callie said...

Chelsie Harris, Callie Miller, Katheryn Kilwein

Focusing on standard three, we decided that podcasting is good in the classroom because students can mobily connect with other people form around the world and discover new interests and create and share their own. This leads students to self discovery along with good digital citizenship.

Anonymous said...

Podcasting should be included in the school cirriculum because it allows students to collect data from various digital devices (2), lets them analyze material from different resources (3), and share information and their own point of view (5) by learning how to create their own Podcasts.

- Luke Juras

Anonymous said...

Podcasts can be useful tools in an education environment. They can fulfill all four of the MT Technology Standards. Specifically, for Standard #2, Podcasts can introduce your students to a global community, and connect them with podcasts from around the world, expanding your students' learning environment beyond the traditional classroom.

For the teacher, a Podcast can be helpful as a resource to supplement your knowledge/teaching, in content areas you don't feel especially strong in. Podcasts can be used anywhere there's a computer or an mp3 player.

Ron
Emily
Laramy

Anonymous said...

Our group has mixed feelings about podcasting in the classroom. We can see how it could work in some situations, but in each of those situations there is another choice to get the desired information that doesn't involve an mp3 player to get it. Not everyone has an mp3 player; they aren't entirely readily available yet. We realize that it's trendy, but is it efficient and necessary?

Amanda LeCarno
Seaghan Herron
Tess Jarvie

Alan Baker said...

According to the Montana Standards for Technology: “…education needs to play
an increasing role in empowering learners to be technologically literate and to
integrate digital tools into their lives.” Using podcasts, and more importantly teaching students how to use and create podcasts, will help achieve this and make students more technologically literate. For example, a teacher could set up a pen-pal type system between classrooms within the school or across the world to help students share and create data about whatever the class is studying. Additionally, with a bit of searching it is likely that teachers and students could find high-quality materials about the class content. Podcasts can provide teachers and students with a free source of possibly high-quality educational information rather than having to pay for brand-name videos or record TV broadcasts. This will also make students more able and willing to have a fun way to become life-long learners by easily accessing and creating information.

Alan, Bridgette, and Kelley

Brittany said...

As a group, we feel that podcasts would almost be too difficult to have a place in an Elementary classroom. Especially in the younger age groups, there is a lack of technological skills. We also wonder what the use of podcasts would be, and we feel that there are better ways to get the children to interact at that age. We can see that in higher education, podcasts could be more beneficial: for example if the teacher were to make lectures availible online. Even middle school and high school students could use this technology to present their work. This could fufill the standard that requires students to "identify and explore
online collaboration and
communication tools". But we feel that to expect elementary students to handle the recording equipment, and be able to access it would not be plausible.

Lindley, Katelin, Brittany

Anonymous said...

To satisfy the requirements of Technology Content Standard 2, a student must:
collaborate and communicate globally in a digital environment.

Podcasts can be directly related to satisfy the content standard 2 above in the classroom.Through a podcast students can connect with different cultures and experience the world in the comforts of the classroom. Also students can share their personal experiences globally.

Kim
TJ
Tarah

Anonymous said...

In order for a student to express themselves better using technology they should have the option of using a podcast, for the audience outside the classroom in addition to their class mates in school. This capability will indefinitely help them in achieving the technological standards given by the state for 4th graders. For example if they give a presentation on Japanese culture its easy for them to present this to students in Japan and get their feedback through the use of a podcast.

Rob D
Rachel D
Katie H

Anonymous said...

Podcasts as well as other technology is important to have in K-12. It will help prepare them for life after high school. It fulfills many of Montana's technology benchmarks. The fifth benchmark suggests that high school students use technology to create new personal understandings. Using a podcast to teach classmates about a topic will strengthen their own understanding. Podcasts will also statisfy the first benchmark for high schoolers. They will be able to communicate information with many people around the world.

Justin Keller, Chris Quinlivan, and Jordan Graves

Kellyn said...

Going along with Standard 1 we think that technology is useful because there is so much information and technology makes it accessible to the students. As the world is becoming more technology advanced it is important for our youth to be technology savvy.
Kellyn, Brenna, Matt

Anonymous said...

We agree with the concept of having benchmarks for certain ages or grade levels because technology is becoming more important and it's likely that they will learn it anyways, so to have it taught in the public classroom and use it for educational purposes is essential. The benchmarks are important because it makes sure that children are not being left behind in our technology age. They should be taught extensively and in context. Children can take advantage of technology and be able to use it as a valuable resource.

Ally Meyer, Collin Lund, Bridget Davis

Katy Ellison said...

Focusing on Standard 2 a podcast would allow students to collaborate and communicate globally in a digital environment. It would be the teacher's responsibility to teach safe and legal uses of this technology. Podcasting would allow students to communicate with people outside of the local community.

Kasey, Katy, Tara

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