Ep.6 - Does Your Teacher Have a Podcast?

Tim and Kyle talk about the influence that podcasts can and will have on the classroom and why teachers need to embrace educational podcasts.

Episode at a Glance:

• Financial and access barriers to educational materials are being reduced by podcasting

What did we learn?

• Open Educational Resources (OER) can now add podcasts to their list of textbooks, streaming video, simulations, courseware, and software
• OER benefits learning by making lectures, exercises, and examples freely available
• OER be retained, reused, revised, remixed, and redistributed by K-12 educational institutions
• Educators can become their own content producers.
• The number of podcasts that are educational is growing.

Additional Reading:

• Podcasts in the Classroom
• Project Audio: Teaching Students How to Produce Their Own Podcasts
• How To Enter The NPR Student Podcast Challenge
• How Podcasts Can Improve Literacy in the Classroom
• TeacherCast Educational Network
• Colonial Williamsburg Past and Present Podcast
• Dan Carlin - Hardcore History Podcast
• Karen Jackson - A Long Look: Slow Art at the National Gallery

Trend Forecaster:

• Two new predictions have been added! See all of our Podcast Industry predictions at podwrecked.com/trends/!

Quotes:

• Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn. – Benjamin Franklin
• It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. – John Wooden

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