right ways and wrong ways

Rob Reynolds from xplanaradio interviews Susan Smith Nash about right and wrongs ways to use podcasts in education.

She says “podcasting is perfect for e-learning, especially when it surges naturally from a course, and individuals start using it in a collaborative way, and the instructor uses it to accommodate different learning styles and to introduce a new way to let the mind organize and make meaning. However, the same fun, dynamic approach to e-learning can be stripped of all its excitement and rendered into a barren, sterile wasteland of educational content by forcing it into an inappropriate instructional model”.

She lists right and wrong ways, including (right way) - “the podcast as knowledge-importer. Trigger thoughts and ideas to stimulate the students’ cognitive processes. Ideally, you’ll be helping them make connections to immediate knowledge and short-term memory, which will translate from working memory to stored, long-term memory” …. There’s more on the xplanazine site where there is also a podcast - the He Said She Said podcast covering the same topic, and others relating to technology and education.