I haven't been doing nearly as much research into podcasting because I have already made up my mind on doing my paper on digital storytelling. Tonight, I dedicated some time to reading about the podcast. I started with an Apple site that gave a basic outline on how the podcast could be used in education. http://www.apple.com/education/solutions/podcasting/
Then I came across this article: http://www.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/erm0561.pdf
It gives a scenario of a student using the podcast for educational purposes and then goes onto explain how it all can be done. What I found most interesting was when the author alluded to the idea that podcasts could change the face of homework. Instead of going home to do paper and pen equations for math, or grammar questions -- the student could simply relisten to the lecture of that day and go over the key concepts with the fast forward or rewind feature.
It also talks about the importance of the voice that offers understanding and how students can learn concepts when it is explained to them by their teacher over a podcast -- in otherwords, "theatre of the mind" does wonders.
So the question is --- if you and your students could use the iPod daily to communicate and reinforce key concepts --- would you still resort to the traditional style of homework too ???
What do you think ???
Anastasia Rioux
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