Podcasting

I was tasked to create a podcast and I thought sharing it here would be a good idea. 

We had many topics to choose from and the topic I choose was "How would I improve the world, explained in 60 seconds". I decided to touch on the subject of Therapy Animals in my podcast and the fact that they would improve everyone's mental health.
 

The creation of the initial voice recording was pretty difficult as just one mistake was enough to ruin the whole recording. My anxiety problem didn't help my case at all too. I had to retake the recording several times in order to finally come up with a usable recording. Then I edited out the unwanted noises and added a piece of background music for the extra fanciness. The end result was quite satisfying for me; enough to make me proud of myself :)
 

Overall, the experience was a bit anxious for me as I often have trouble with voice recording. I imagine my future students would also have these kinds of problems so while I would teach about the very basics of podcasting, I doubt if I actually require my students to make a podcast of their own.

Even the smallest of dents to a students' self-esteem and confidence is often enough to make a student give up altogether. While you can improve a bad student whether it's hard or easy, the same cannot be said for a lost student who is given up on hope. It's debateable if forcing students to do tasks which their necessity is questionable is a good thing.
 

In the end, we already have speaking practices anyways :)

Music Used in Podcast: Bach Cello Suite 1

21th Century Learning

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    The findings about and methods of teaching has came a long way since the beginning of humankind. The core values that are considered to be important years ago are sometimes even shunned when compared to today's values that are upheld. 

   

    When we look at the previous years, we see a more direct approach to teaching with little to no interactive classes and often exercises that would be considered "boring" by today's standards. Maybe it was natural when you consider that language teaching was mostly kickstarted by the efforts of translating the bible into different languages but regardless, we came a long way.

    

    Compared to the old practices, learning and teaching in the 21st century have vast differences and different core values. Collaboration, digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem-solving are the main points of improvement in this century. Everyone is expected to be able to make use of the fruits of technology for the ease of both the learner and the teacher. People have to be able to work in unity to be able to achieve greater things.

    

    Many things directly or indirectly caused these changes from the new corporate style jobs to the ever-increasing need for more efficiency to be able to meet the public demand. It could be open to debate whether or not these changes are good or bad but it is certain that they had a big effect on the development of learning.

    

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     Welcome to my blog! This is where i'll be writing about my learnings about English Language teaching and record my journey. I'm hoping that anyone who reads this blog makes good use of it regardless of how big or small it is. Follow me on this adventure and explore with me.

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