EP220 How to use podcasts in the classroom (with Listenwise)
Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers
Angela Watson
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2021
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
"Better listeners are better learners," says my guest Monica Brady-Myerov. She's the Founder and CEO of Listenwise, an award-winning listening skills platform and the sponsor for this episode. Monica explains that audio is a powerful tool for equity and differentiation, because most kids have a much higher listening comprehension level than reading comprehension.
You can bring authentic stories and primary sources to your students via audio, helping to build empathy and personalize information that might be difficult to connect with through just words on a page.
Not only are podcasts a great way to build students' content-area knowledge, but audio instruction also helps strengthen their listening comprehension skills.
Monica shares examples of how teachers are incorporating podcasts into their instruction. She also explains the features of Listenwise which make it faster and easier for teachers to find high-quality audio content to use with students. There's a free version of Listenwise available, and you can sign up for a free 30 day trial of the premium version here.
We also delve a bit into some of the brain research that tells us how we process audio information and the benefits of it. By the end of the convo, my mind was racing with possibilities and ideas of how the things Monica taught me could be used with students, and I hope you'll feel the same. If you love podcasts yourself and are curious about how to use them more with students, you'll find some great practical strategies and tools here!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 220 of Angela Watson's Truth for Teachers. I'm your host, Angela Watson, |
| 0:08.4 | and I'm here to speak life, encouragement, and truth into the minds and hearts of educators |
| 0:13.9 | and get you energized for the week ahead. Today I'm talking with Monica Brady Mayerov |
| 0:19.2 | from Listenwise about powerful ways to use podcasts and other audio content with your |
| 0:24.9 | students. Visit truthforteachers.com to get the transcript or find our Truth for Teachers |
| 0:30.0 | podcast community on Facebook. So this is a very special and unique episode of Truth |
| 0:36.8 | for Teachers. We do not have any sponsor messages to share at the beginning because our sponsor |
| 0:42.6 | is our guest expert on podcasting in the classroom. I'm talking with Monica Brady Mayerov. |
| 0:48.7 | She's the founder and CEO of Listenwise, which is an award-winning listening skills platform. |
| 0:54.9 | Monica's also the author of a new book coming out in April 2021, published by Jossi Bass. |
| 1:00.5 | It's called Listenwise. Teach students to be better listeners. It's about how K-12 teachers |
| 1:06.4 | can help their students build powerful listening skills. Monica is a delightful and fascinating |
| 1:13.0 | guest as you will hear in just a moment. Before starting Listenwise, she was an award-winning |
| 1:17.4 | public radio reporter for nearly 25 years. She covered news in Kenya, Brazil, Washington, |
| 1:23.2 | DC, and Boston for MPR and other audio news outlets. Now, sometimes when I interview a guest, |
| 1:30.2 | what they say is super affirming of what I already know and believe. And sometimes what they |
| 1:34.9 | say is clarifying. They build on something I already know something about, but they help me |
| 1:39.5 | connect more dots and have a deeper understanding. I love both of those kinds of conversations. |
| 1:45.5 | But there's also a third kind, which is when things take a very different turn than what I |
| 1:50.3 | expected. And my mind is open to brand new possibilities, and I learn a ton of new information. |
| 1:55.8 | And that's what happened when I talked with Monica. I thought this episode was going to be about |
| 2:00.0 | using audio to help kids learn content. What I didn't realize was the tremendous value of using |
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