When students create their tiny podcasts, they are doing something Harvard researchers Sarah Fine and Jal Mehta, in their book In Search of Deeper Learning, call "playing the whole game at the junior level."
They're going through the exact steps professionals in the field go through when they release episodes to thousands or even millions of listeners.
They're creating cover art, planning and scripting episodes, recording and uploading sound files, writing descriptions, and releasing their work to an audience.
Powerful stuff.
They may be curious about how folks in the podcasting field do these same tasks, and why.
I invited student questions on this very topic, and received about a hundred. I took the forty most common and created a podcast episode answering them.
Some of the Student Questions from the show:
- What equipment do you need?
- How do you get ideas?
- Do you have a script or a bulleted list of topics?
- Is it hard not to mess up your words?
- Does it ever get boring?
- Does it get weird to hear your voice a lot?
- Do you interview people? What is that like? How do you pick questions for guests?
If you'd like your students to hear the answers to questions like these, you can play them episode 106 of The Spark Creativity Teacher Podcast, and let me be your guest speaker in class.
