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I am currently enrolled as a junior at the University of South Alabama. I am earning my bachelor's degree in Secondary Education Mathematics. As educators, we should focus on future generations to ensure that they succeed to the best of their abilities. In order to achieve this goal, educators must be willing to constantly learn and motivate their students to use new forms of technology inside and outside of the classroom. Educators must be self-motivated lifelong learners. As future generations go through school, the use of technology will become mandatory in schools. It is our job as educators to lead our students in their use of technology so that they can better themselves and their educations. We are not going back in time, so educators need to put down the pen and paper and pick up their computers. My ultimate goal is to equip my students with the knowledge and tools necessary to raise the bar in education with the technology generations.

Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Podcasts


Podcasts are extremely helpful tools in classrooms and every day life. Almost any topic has podcasts about it, especially educational podcasts, and the number of these podcasts are growing every day. Podcasts can be extremely insightful and useful for everyone. Many podcasts can be found at iTunesU, and they are conveniently seperated by subject and/or creator. Making a podcast is fairly simple and can be done with Audacity software. Podcasts vary greatly in length, but iTunesU has a scroll bar so that you can scroll to whichever part you need to listen.

Podcasts can be extremely helpful for teachers because if they are going to be absent and know this beforehand, they can record messages to their students or even a lecture. This would benefit the students quite well because they would have a lecture rather than busy work out of a book. Obviously the students cannot ask questions, but they can write down questions to ask the teacher at the next class period. A teacher could refresh the students' memory on certain topics before having the substitute teacher give an assignment. This would be beneficial to the students because most substitute teachers do not hold a degree in education. Teachers can also record lecture sessions and post them to the teacher's website so that students can listen from home in case they cannot remember exactly what the teacher said.
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