Where Are All the Honey Bees? Pedagogy and Podcasting
21st Century Learning, pedagogy, research April 16th, 2008I recently listened to a very engaging podcast from Penn State on the educational uses of podcasting. It was delivered last summer as part of the series, “What Works in Educational Technology” by the Teaching and Learning with Technology staff. This particular 20 minute episode includes faculty interviews and explores ideas and examples for podcasting as part of the curriculum. The discussion moves from podcasting lectures to having students create informative podcasts in a science course for an active learning experience.
Last spring, a group of Penn State students (non-science majors in a science course) collaborated with their professor and created the informative Honey Bee Podcast (for bee keepers) while exploring the recently discovered phenomenon now called Colony Collapse Disorder. The public podcast grew in popularity and was ultimately cited in a testimony before the United States government on this wide-spread issue.
I highly recommend listening to the podcast for ideas, inspiration, and to learn more about the Penn State Podcasting Initiative. This episode can be downloaded from directly from iTunes U. Enjoy!
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April 17th, 2008 at 10:06 am
Cool stuff. I liked that they specified that simple recording of lectures is a benefit to students, but that it’s not the same as podcasting. Their approach as seeing podcasts a “value added” is right, whether this takes the form of a faculty-generated stream of content or a student-generated interaction.
If we agree that students learn best when using or creating with course content, then I think that collaboratively-produced podcasts are an essential route into their brains.