Finding a New Way to Listen: Podcasts in the Classroom
According to smallbizgenius.com, 51% of Americans ages 12 and older have listened to podcasts. That is over half of the population in the United States. With the endless amounts of content, why not add this (not so new) phenomenon into your classroom? The Art (and Science) of Listening In the words of Jan Burkins and Kari Yates, authors of Shifting the Balance , "Reading comprehension actually involves translating the words on the page into spoken language and "listening to them" either by saying them aloud or saying them in our heads." What Jan and Kari are trying to explain here and within their chapter on comprehension, is that listening comprehension is the gateway to learning how to read and successfully comprehend what we are reading. The more children hear language being spoken as they are younger, the more they can understand that language, imitate it and thus translate it to written language. Listening comprehension becomes especially important in school ...