We talk to students all day long and expect them to listen. But, do we design lessons that teach them how to be a good listener?
The best way to teach students how to listen is listen to the students. Podcasting is a powerful tool that affords students the opportunity to think before they speak and know that when they have spoken someone will be listening {they will be heard}.
My first grade students like to talk and podcasting allows them to talk as they put their thoughts about curriculum-based subjects into an organized format before they share them with the world. {I want to teach some of the adults that I know to use podcast and learn to think before they speak. I have a list of people that I would send invitations to my podcast class and my name is on the top of the list}.
I think starting your students out with listening to podcasts is a terrific way to scaffold the process of understanding what a podcast is and the pieces that make up a podcast.
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