Podcasting with

Purpose

Podcasting with

Purpose

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•ENGAGE•CREATE PURPOSE•PREPARE

Podcasting with PurposePodcasting with Purpose

DEMOCRATIZE

YOUR CLA

SSROOM

What’s a Podcast?

mp3 (usually)

RSS ?Podcasting with PurposePodcasting with Purpose

The Room 208 Story

The Room 208 Story

The Room 208 StoryThe Room 208 Story

BLOG + AUDIO

= PODCAST

ENGAGEENGAGE

• Student Interest

• Peer Teaching

• Research Skills

• Re-teaching Opportunities

• Students are not Passive

BENEFITS FOR WRITINGStudentNews

StudentNews

Niche PiecesNiche Pieces

•Students Decide

•Peer Teaching

•Guiding Questions from Teacher

•Team Writing Benefits

•Re-teaching Opportunities

BENEFITS FOR LEARNING

ENGAGEENGAGE

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

Beth Bush

CREATE PURPOSECREATE

PURPOSESo the Wind Won’t Blow it All Away

• Archived

• Shows Growth Over Time

• Accessible 24/7

Living Portfolio

WRITING FOR REAL PURPOSE

AUTHENTICAUTHENTIC AUDIENCEAUDIENCE

Writing for the Teachervs

Writing for a Global Audience

PURPOSEPURPOSE

"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

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PREPAREPREPARE

21st Century Skills21st Century Skills

Podcasting meets 21st Century Literacy Skills

Ready?Ready?

“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 Centuryhttp://tinyurl.com/667357

State Board of Education Select Panel on Re-visioning Education in Maine

21st Century Skills21st Century Skills

•Information Literacy—handling massive amounts of information

•Global Communication:work with people all over the world

•Self-directed Learner

“Real revolution is not Technology. The real revolution is information and communication… Rather than teaching technology skills, I think we need to rename the focus to “Information Critical Thinking” and “Global Communication Skills”

~Alan November www.novemberlearning.com

Exposing knowledge

Employing information

Expressing ideas compellingly• Ethical uses of information.

The 4 E’s

David Warlicklandmark-project.com

21st Century Skills21st Century Skills

•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

The Partnership for 21st Century Skillshttp://www.21stcenturyskills.org/

21st Century Skills21st Century Skills

for Students

21st Century Skills21st Century SkillsNational Educational Technology

Standards

•Communication to Parents

•Global Citizens / Global Learners

•Constantly Reflecting with Larger Community

•Self Directed Learners

Achieving 21st Century Skillswith Podcasting

Achieving 21st Century Skillswith Podcasting

21st Century Skills21st Century Skills

ENGAGE/PURPOSE/PREPARE

“We learn from the company we keep.”

Frank Smith

•What’s our role as teachers?•How do we prepare our students to be Global Communicators?

“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

Information Artisans

PREPAREMOVING 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

Are we encouraging these needed skills?

Do Our AssessmentMatch?

Are we encouraging these needed skills?

Do Our AssessmentMatch?

DemocratizeYour

Classroom

DemocratizeYour

Classroom

Democratize Your Classroom

•Democratizing the Media

•Harnessing the Prosumer Communities

• More than Customization• Designing for Prosumption

• Losing Control

• Becoming a Peer

• Sharing the Fruits

•How Do You Want to Learn?

•Who should be doing the creating? The work?

•Differentiating Making lessons reconfigurable/editable and allow for collaboration

•Students really own the work/outcomesLongevity... Not in Isolation

Democratize Your Classroom

•Play

•Performance

•Simulation

•Appropriation

•Multitasking

•Distributed Cognition

•Collective Intelligence

•Judgment

•Transmedia Navigation

•Networking

•Negotiation

New Skills Needed:

Democratize Your Classroom

Challenge: Rethink Literacy

Today’s elementary school graduate needs to be able to:

•Use digital tools effectively and safely.•Think critically.•Understand complex systems.•Know about other countries and cultures.•Participate in collaborative learning communities. •Invent, create, and design — alone and with others.•Find wholeness in a “remix” world.

Data?Data?

Data?Data?

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Questions?Questions?