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Have Students Create Their Own Podcasts
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Why Podcasts Are so Effective in Engaging Students
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If you’re assigning a podcast for homework, your students can listen anywhere: on the school bus or driving home, walking around their neighborhood, while they’re working out or just in the comfort of their own bedrooms.This means that your students will listen to your podcast longer than they spend on their traditional homework.
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Great Podcasts for Students by Age Group
Podcasts for Elementary Students:
1.Tumble (science)
2.But Why? (various topics)
3.Storynory (language arts)
4.The Alien Adventures of Finn Caspian (language arts)
5.Eleanor Amplified (language arts)
The podcast stats show that there are over 700,000 active podcasts with more than 29 million available episodes however just 10% of the monthly podcast listeners are in the 12-17 age range. It is still an undiscovered medium for teachers to explore.
Podcasts for Middle School Students:
1.The Past and the Curious (history)
2.Brains On (science)
3.KidNuz (current events)
4.Youth Radio (current events)
5.Welcome to Night Vale (language arts)
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Podcasts for High School Students:
1.Star Talk with Neil DeGrasse Tyson (science)
2.Serial (criminal justice)
3.Radiolab (science)
4.StoryCorps (language arts)
5.Stuff You Missed in History Class (history)
How to use Podcasts in Your Classroom
Final Podcast Game
Finally, podcasts come in a format that’s attractive to them. By being able to pull up a podcast on their smartphones, they’re engaging with a medium that they already know and use more than any other. It’s going with the trend rather than fighting it!
Then there’s the imagination element. Just like with reading a good book, a podcast allows students to picture what they’re listening to and create their own visual images in their minds.
A fantastic alternative to a research paper, a podcast will inspire your students and bring their research to life. By using some simple free software or the built-in microphones in their smartphones or laptops, your students can become podcast hosts in no time.btopic
Once you’ve found a podcast episode that aligns with your lesson, you have two options for listening:
Ask students to listen individually on their smartphones or tablets with their headphones, either in class or for homework.
Listen as a group in class.
For option number one, you can go one step further by uploading the podcast of your choice to Edpuzzle and embedding comprehension questions to keep your students engaged.
