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

BENEFITS FOR WRITING
Student Niche
News Pieces
• Student Interest
• Students Decide
• Peer Teaching
• Peer Teaching
• Research Skills
• Guiding Questions from
Teacher
• Re-teaching Opportunities
• Team Writing Benefits
• Students are not Passive

BENEFITS FOR LEARNING

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

CREATE PURPOSE
So the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away

LIVING PORTFOLIO
• Archived
• Shows Growth Over Time
• Accessible 24/7

WRITING FOR REAL PURPOSE
AUTHENTIC AUDIENCE
Writing for the Teacher
vs
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
21 st Century Literacy Skills

Ready?
State Board of Education
Select Panel on Revisioning Education in Maine
“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

21st Century Skills
•Information Literacy—
handling massive
amounts of information
•Global Communication:
“Real revolution is not Technology. work with people all
The real revolution is information and over the world
communication… Rather than
teaching technology skills, I think we •Self-directed Learner
need to rename the focus to
“Information Critical Thinking” and
“Global Communication Skills”
www.novemberlearning.com
~Alan November

21st Century Skills
The 4 E’s
• Exposing knowledge
• Employing information
• Expressing ideas
compellingly
David Warlick
• Ethical uses of information.
landmark-project.com

21st Century Skills
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/
•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

21st Century Skills

21st Century Learners
•Communication to Parents
•Global Citizens / Global Learners
•Constantly Reflecting with Larger
Community
•Self Directed Learners

PREPARE
MOVING FROM THE
INFORMATION AGE TO THE
CONCEPTUAL AGE
6 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 #275
What 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 above
d) who cares?

Assessment?

ENGAGE/PURPOSE/PREPARE
“We learn from the
company we keep.”
Frank Smith

Information Artisans
“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

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

Data?
Fall Spring
187 184 183
179
163 160
157 156
144 144
140 138
133 131
126 123
117
116 115 116 116
113
106
102 102
97
96
79
77
73 72 70 68
62
49
41

Data?
Fall Spring 156
144
138
131
117
116 115
113
106
102 102
97
96
79
77
73 72 70 68
62
49
41

Students = Teachers

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