Examples: Are we all really just Minions? How are hipsters, coffee, and the internet culture connected?.These types of podcasts may involve interviews but are primarily solocasts designed to guide the audience toward a final answer to the inquiry question. Students form an inquiry question and create a podcast to investigate and send a message about a specific aspect of modern society.These categories help me to have a clear overall purpose for podcasting and can be broken down into more specific prompts as needed. Three of my favorite ideas for teaching podcasting in the classroom are unpacked below. ![]() Raise your hand if you’ve ever “killed” a project by trying to make it do too many things at one time, making it confusing for students. There are a lot of different options for creating a podcast, and you don’t want to “teacher-ize” it too much. Thinking of what kind of podcast you want students to create is your first step. And research, yes, that can make its way into classroom podcasting, as well. ![]() ![]() If we’re talking CCSS, students demonstrated ALL of the skill groups during the course of the project, from speaking and listening, to writing and reading, to use of language and grammar. In addition, I found that podcasting represented the perfect storm of skills for project-based learning. ![]() Plus, podcasting was versatile enough to be used not only as an ending assessment but also as an ongoing platform for inquiry in the classroom. Despite these questions, I pushed forward because I knew it could be cool and rewarding for students.
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