With the huge success of the Serial Podcast, podcasts are seeing a bit of a resurgence. Not just for entertainment, schools are using this medium to push students in non-traditional ways.
In a California High School, an English teacher used the Serial Podcast to slow students down and improve their listening skills. “Students publicly debated… guilt or innocence in… classes, addressing a Common Core standard to improve speaking skills, and worked together with other students to… present mock closing arguments.” Beyond debating the content, students would also “navigate Google maps, finding the exact streets in Baltimore where important events were said to have occurred, and ‘driving’ them, virtually, to assess the evidence.”
The KQED article is a great read about the different ways teachers can think outside-the-box with their instruction.
Are you listening to the Serial Podcast? What do you think of the idea?
YouTube is a resource for finding classroom content and a place where students can also share their work. But like many things, there are rules and ways to use it responsibly. Aimed at secondary students (ages 13-17), Google’s Curriculum resource “Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship” helps school librarians and teachers share ways that students can learn that responsibility and the skills to become better digital citizens.
The site has many tools and lesson plans to use. Here are some of the things you’ll find:
YouTube’s policies
Cyberbullying
How to report content on YouTube
How to protect their privacy online
How to be responsible YouTube community members
How to be responsible digital citizens
From Google: “We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.”
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YouTube is a resource for finding classroom content and a place where students can also share their work. But like many things, there are rules and ways to use it responsibly. Aimed at secondary students (ages 13-17), Google’s Curriculum resource “Understanding YouTube and Digital Citizenship” helps school librarians and teachers share ways that students can learn that responsibility and the skills to become better digital citizens.
The site has many tools and lesson plans to use. Here are some of the things you’ll find:
YouTube’s policies
Cyberbullying
How to report content on YouTube
How to protect their privacy online
How to be responsible YouTube community members
How to be responsible digital citizens
From Google: “We hope that students and educators gain useful skills and a holistic understanding about responsible digital citizenship, not only on YouTube, but in all online activity.”
Image credit: http://tinyurl.com/q4ce8mw, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
A free iPad as a student sounds like a pretty sweet deal. But imagine if that iPad was used by administrators to see if you went to class? That’s what students at Lynn University, a small institution in Boca Raton, Fla., are soon going to face. The University is “planning to try out a new app, called Class120, to “ping” its students’ iPads during class periods. If GPS or the campus wi-fi network indicates that someone’s device is not present, the app will send the student an automated reminder…”
March is makerspace month here at CMLE! This month we’ll have a series of blog posts with the makerspace theme. This week we give you ideas!
Plenty of posts that talk about Makerspaces, but what if you just want ideas? In our last post of the makerspace series we are giving you just that. Plus, a way to add your ideas to the list too!
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With the huge success of the Serial Podcast, podcasts are seeing a bit of a resurgence. Not just for entertainment, schools are using this medium to push students in non-traditional ways.
