Two great podcast to check out are The Edible School and A Night in the Global Village. Both of these podcast encourage educators to tie education to the everyday world. In a school which is featured in The Edible School they combined math, art, history and science to form a combined class. They used these subjects together to teach the children the material in creative ways. On the video an example is shown of a class studying circles. They took a trip to see how a water wheel works and then made their own water wheels. The children competed to see which water wheel worked the best. The excitement among the students about learning was quite evident.
In A Night in the Global Village, students visit the Heifer Ranch. At the ranch the children are given a tour and get to see what poverty level homes look like in Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Thailand, a refuge camp and a generic urban slum. After the tour the children are taken to a large room and assigned a country. They will stay the night in the dwelling that represents the country they become a part of and will experience a small part of what it would be like to live in that country. They have to trade with each other for food, find fuel for their cooking fire and do chores. This experience helped the children to have empathy for people who have less than they have.
These podcast open up many ideas for each teachers to explore and implement into their class. These ideas when implemented by a teacher offer students a chance to get excited and motivated about their education. In The Edible School they tell teachers that combining subjects and involving hands on activities does take more time but it is worth it.
The podcast presented here and others like them offer new ideas and helpful information to keep teachers fresh and excited about teaching. Educational podcast such as these provide information in an easily accessible form. A teacher can type in a title on itunes.com and choose from a list of podcast available on the topic entered.
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Excellent summaries. Don't for get to post regarding Mr. Sullivan's presentation.
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