Podcasting with Purpose

Podcasting with Purpose

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Room 208 Podcast

Podcasting with Purpose

•ENGAGE•CREATE PURPOSE•PREPARE

Podcasting with Purpose

What’s a Podcast?

mp3 (usually)

RSS ?

Open the Windows and Let the World In

The Room 208 Story

The Room 208 Story

BLOG + AUDIO

= PODCAST

ENGAGE

• Student Interest

• Peer Teaching

• Research Skills

• Re-teaching Opportunities

• Students are not Passive

BENEFITS FOR WRITINGStudent

News

Niche

Pieces

• Students Decide

• Peer Teaching

• Guiding Questions from Teacher

• Team Writing Benefits

BENEFITS FOR LEARNING

ENGAGE

“I SHOULD HAVE THEM PODCAST ANYTHING THAT I WANT THEM TO LEARN.”

Beth Bush

CREATE PURPOSESo the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away

• Archived

• Shows Growth Over Time

• Accessible 24/7

LIVING PORTFOLIO

WRITING FOR REAL PURPOSE

AUTHENTIC AUDIENCE

Writing for the Teachervs

Writing for a Global Audience

PURPOSE"Simply put, school life should become more

like real life, with school work organized around projects rather than textbooks, and students working in teams rather than alone. Schools should break down the two enemies of learning: isolation and abstraction.”

George Lucas

PREPARE

21st Century Skills

Podcasting meets 21st Century Literacy Skills

Ready?

“Maine’s schools are not ready for the 21st century. In order for Maine people to flourish in the radically transformed landscape of this new century, dramatic change must occur in Maine’s schools.”

The Learning State: Maine Schooling for the 21st Century

State Board of Education Select Panel on Revisioning Education in Maine

21st Century Skills

•Information Literacy—handling massive amounts of information

•Global Communication:work with people all over the world

•Self-directed Learner

“Real revolution is not Technology. The real revolution is information and communication… Rather than teaching technology skills, I think we need to rename the focus to “Information Critical Thinking” and “Global Communication Skills”

~Alan November www.novemberlearning.com

21st Century Skills

• Exposing knowledge

• Employing information

• Expressing ideas compellingly

• Ethical uses of information.

The 4 E’s

David Warlicklandmark-project.com

21st Century Skills

•21st Century Content * Global awareness

•Learning and Thinking Skills * Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills * Communication Skills * Creativity and Innovation Skills * Collaboration Skills * Information and Media Literacy Skills

•Life Skills * Leadership * Ethics

The Partnership for 21st Century Skillshttp://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

21st Century Skills

•Communication to Parents

•Global Citizens / Global Learners

•Constantly Reflecting with Larger Community

•Self Directed Learners

21st Century Learners

PREPAREMOVING FROM THE

INFORMATION AGE TO THE CONCEPTUAL AGE6 Senses of the CONCEPTUAL AGE:

1. Not just function, but also DESIGN

2. Not just argument but also STORY

3. Not just argument but also SYMPHONY

4. Not just logic but also EMPATHY

5. Not just seriousness but also PLAY

6. Not just accumulation but also MEANING

Standardized Question #275What is a Podcast?

a) a specialized fishing rod for the illusive Dangle Fish

b) A digital media file, or a series of such files, that is distributed over the Internet using syndication feeds for playback on portable media players and personal computers.c) none of the aboved) who cares?

Assessment?

ENGAGE/PURPOSE/PREPARE

“We learn from the company we keep.”

Frank Smith

“Teachers and learners become information artisans, mining for information raw materials, remixing and re-networking what they find, and then communicating their new and valuable information products for re-mining. Teachers become learner models, and students become interactive learners developing and practicing life-long learning skills.”

David Warlick

Information Artisans

Participate in Democracy

"[The Internet] is the single greatest single source of hope that we will be able to fix what ails the conversation of democracy."

Al Gore

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Students = Teachers

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