Thursday, June 14, 2012

Can podcasts enhance/support your classroom instruction? What are the benefits and barriers?

Based on my own learning experiences and my experiences working with the special education population, I don't know how effective podcasts would be when teaching a math concept.  I could see using one that involved both video and audio as a recap of a lesson already taught so that students could go watch it to see step by step how to solve what ever type of problems were being taught in class.  Often times students do not take down accurate notes, so having a podcast available to students would definitely be helpful for them to see the problems being worked through again as they sit down to do their homework.

When teaching at a higher level general education class room or honors classroom for math, I could see using a podcast for a flipped lesson as working for the students.  These students are typically going to be able to take more out of an online lesson and apply later in class or re-teach it to someone else.

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