Podcasting is a cross-curricular tool that enhances communication, creativity, digital skills, and subject-specific knowledge. It is being used in the English and Welsh curriculum to improve oracy, literacy, digital competency, and critical thinking across multiple subjects. Schools integrating podcasting into their curriculum provide students with real-world media experience, teamwork and the opportunity to
reinforce prior learning.
There is a lot of positive research endorsing the benefits of school children creating podcasts.
The National Literacy trust recognises that listening to podcasts has a positive impact on children's reading.
The research also shows that boys listen more to podcasts. Reaching this group is always more difficult but this improves their reading abilities.
Teaching students to make Podcasts also helps develop a wide range of skills that can better equip them for todays modern life.
It can be an activity for a full class activity, creating teams for research, creating presentations and editorials including music, artwork and more.
Communication skills: Students improve their speaking skills, confidence, and their ability to grab attention.
Developing their communication, speaking, reading and writing skills, along with how to best present them, are all invaluable skills for their future. It improves the way they listen and comprehend, exposing them to greater vocabulary and different voices and language patterns.
- It fosters a greater understanding and acceptance of their peers.
- They learning how to thoroughly research a topic and how to write about it and present their findings in an engaging way
- The learn how to work as a team on a project and how to manage their time to meet deadlines
- They learn how to overcome barriers and obstacles.
- They learn about Audio Visual technology, how it works, how to make the most of the opportunities it brings and how to use if effectively.
Creating a Podcast boosts a student's confidence. Sharing their thoughts and views to others encourages them in the belief that they too can have a voice that matters.
Creating Podcasts on topics that they have an interest in allows them to show their knowledge and passions and convey their thoughts and opinions.