All Things Digital Literacy: Pre-K - 2nd
Digital Literacy is "the ability to use information and communication technologies to find, evaluate, create, and communicate information, requiring both cognitive and technical skills"
Benefits of Digital Literacy:
- student engagement
- creativity
- multiple formats for student understanding
- differentiation
- portability
What is a Podcast?
“It’s a series of spoken, audio episodes, often focused on a particular topic or theme, like cycling or startups. You can subscribe to the show with an app on your phone and listen to episodes whenever you like on your headphones, in the car or through speakers.
How could it be incorporated into the classroom?
- whole group instruction
- small group instruction
- centers
- assessment
1. Listen to a podcast as a whole group.
- Choose a podcast that's interesting a relatable to the students.
- Have the students answer questions about the podcast.
- What did you learn?
2. Students could create their own podcast based on the content material
- the teacher can assess student understanding
3. Student absent?
- When they return, have a "podcast center" set up to allow them to listen to the material that was taught previously.
Benefits of Podcast in the classroom:
- Auditory skills
- Improve listening skills
- Improve writing skills (scripts)
- Innovative
Watch this video to see how this first grade classroom is making Podcasts to learn about books!
Software: Garageband
Reflection:
Digital literacy in the classroom in a key focus of 21st century teaching, with technology at the tips of our fingers, why not use it to benefit our students?
This presentation focuses on how using Podcasts (as a form of digital literacy) in the classroom can improve the learning experience for students. I did not know the benefits of podcasts - that they create student engagement, benefit language learners, and is a personalized learning platform. Podcasts can be incorporated into any lesson and can be themed around any subject.
In my future classroom, I would like to incorporate podcasts as a form of digital literacy. When learning about specific topics, I could break my students into groups and give them subtopics that connect to the main lesson. Each group could create a podcast to teach us about what they learned. This could be done with any course subject. Students could also create their own podcast as another option for a way to present a presentation.
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