Podcasting in Education

http://www.apple.com/education/digitalauthoring/podcasting.html This article describes positive influences that podcasting in education has. Apple feels as though this is a "new way to inspire learning." Children can be creative with their ideas and helps excite the teachers and students in a more educational way. Podcasts can either be audio or video files over a network. The podcasts are a 21st century communication skill while also being creative. Teachers can show students voice recordings, photographs, movies, and different sound effects to give them better knowledge of information learned about. Homework assignments and many different lessons can be created over podcasts. This is also a professional development that can be taught in school and used in the work force. This article talks about how a podcast will be put into every Mac. This is a way to get people more interested in buying Mac products. Schools are able to host their own podcast through a "Podcast Producer."

Podcasts are good in education by another technological tool to help educate students. They are taught this at an earlier age and can use it when getting jobs later in life. Technology is growing rapidly and why not teach the next generation how to use the products?

Research could be done on seeing how effective they truely are. Are people wasting their money on podcasts when they can just watch a movie or put in a CD-ROM? Also, research could be done to see how many people actually use the device after they buy the product.