Comments on: Podcasts will (save/replace) us all! http://williamchinda.com/blog/2009/02/28/podcasts-will-savereplace-us-all/ Sun, 24 Jan 2010 20:01:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Will Chinda http://williamchinda.com/blog/2009/02/28/podcasts-will-savereplace-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-9 Will Chinda Fri, 06 Mar 2009 00:01:08 +0000 http://williamchinda.com/blog/?p=155#comment-9 If I recall correctly, it was posttest only. They did, however, gather a lot of data on student GPAs, standardized test scores, and the like - which is a lot more than the other podcast studies I have seen. They qualified it as a "preliminary study," but that's a hard one to swallow when they have such a bombastic title... which of course leads to it getting loads of coverage by a hundred different news sources. I really love podcasts, and actually hope that creative uses of it in education would happen on a large scale... of course the reality is that people would just record lectures, put it up, and that would be the end of it. There's so much freaking potential with the medium, but everyone's stuck in the same mode of thinking they've always been in. If I recall correctly, it was posttest only. They did, however, gather a lot of data on student GPAs, standardized test scores, and the like – which is a lot more than the other podcast studies I have seen. They qualified it as a “preliminary study,” but that’s a hard one to swallow when they have such a bombastic title… which of course leads to it getting loads of coverage by a hundred different news sources.

I really love podcasts, and actually hope that creative uses of it in education would happen on a large scale… of course the reality is that people would just record lectures, put it up, and that would be the end of it. There’s so much freaking potential with the medium, but everyone’s stuck in the same mode of thinking they’ve always been in.

]]> By: Shelley http://williamchinda.com/blog/2009/02/28/podcasts-will-savereplace-us-all/comment-page-1/#comment-8 Shelley Thu, 05 Mar 2009 12:49:44 +0000 http://williamchinda.com/blog/?p=155#comment-8 I listened to that podcast, too...Did you check out his site? The students can change absolutely everything. It is a website wiki =) What really struck me, though, was when he was talking about his little profile on the left that said that he spoke English and had 15 years exp. or whatever, and then on the right was the experience and languages earned/spoken by the members of his class. I think that is the basis of what web 2.0 offers education; the perception of students has changed from client to commodity. As far as the podcast, though, we both listened by choice and because it was of particular interest to us. I wouldn't necessarily buy the results in the study you cited because it used only a posttest as a dependent measure (I haven't read the study, but this is what I gathered), and that phenomenon has been discussed widely by the no significant difference phenomenon (all things being equal, etc). I don't think students would tolerate 12 or 15 credit hours of courses all being delivered via podcasts...where is the learning in that? I listened to that podcast, too…Did you check out his site? The students can change absolutely everything. It is a website wiki =) What really struck me, though, was when he was talking about his little profile on the left that said that he spoke English and had 15 years exp. or whatever, and then on the right was the experience and languages earned/spoken by the members of his class. I think that is the basis of what web 2.0 offers education; the perception of students has changed from client to commodity.

As far as the podcast, though, we both listened by choice and because it was of particular interest to us. I wouldn’t necessarily buy the results in the study you cited because it used only a posttest as a dependent measure (I haven’t read the study, but this is what I gathered), and that phenomenon has been discussed widely by the no significant difference phenomenon (all things being equal, etc). I don’t think students would tolerate 12 or 15 credit hours of courses all being delivered via podcasts…where is the learning in that?

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