EDUCATION PODCASTING

Learning from the fourth screen (the cellphones, pocket PC’s, PDA’s, ipods etc ).The ‘podcast’ has now become quite popular. Created as a coined word from ipod and broadcasting it has taken the youth by storm all over the world. The term podcasting is used in a more generic sense to connote sending audio and sometimes pictures as well as video to hand- devices, held Using podcasting as a tool for education and creating a completely new form of engagement between the learner and the teacher, and also toss reaching out to the visually challenged .Empowering the individual teacher, to be able to send his audio of audio-video files (usually MP3), to student in any part of the world, and for any learner to receive it on a hand held device.

Many reputed schools are now thinking of getting their students to acquire an ipod or similar device, in sharp contrast to the scene earlier, when school and college management were busy confiscating cell-phones if brought to campus. There is also a movement at mobilizing teachers to start contribution their own products. For this, properly designed “podcast studio” and uploaded.

One of the care principles of ’podagogy’ is to impact all learning in small chunks, rather than through long monolithic lectures, ’podcast’ are of short and small time duration between 1-10 minutes, based on the research on the span of attention when engaging with such media.

The advent of podcasts at this time seems so opportune. The NCERT has just now released its syllabus under the new National Curriculum Framework with the philosophy of reducing the burden on students and making the teaching more interesting and activity based. Use of these emerging technologies could create tremendous benefit it terms of both the learning experience and the learning outcomes. In tune with the NCERT’s lunch schedule. We help create podcasts to support the learners. Visit our sample podcast on; http://www.planetedumark.com/podcast/trial.xml  for better understanding.

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