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How Listening to Podcasts Helps Students Read and Learn

High school English teacher Michael Godsey’s  favorite work by William Shakespeare is Hamlet. But a few years ago, he stopped teaching  his students about the centuries-old classic in favor of a story that was unfolding in the fall of 2014: Serial , the podcast.

When he first started teaching with podcasts, students were applying English Language Arts critical thinking skills to podcast episodes, much like they would after reading a book. However, the more he taught with podcasts, he began to discover that his students were learning in ways he hadn’t anticipated.

Godsey developed lesson plans for teaching with podcasts  and started hearing from teachers around the country about how podcasts were getting students excited about learning again.

For a list of other education podcasts you may want to use with learners, visit 16 Education Podcasts to Check Out in 2017

Source: KQED News; EdSurge