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Podcasting and the Learning disabled.

Podcasting allows a teacher to audio/video tape a lecture and numerous other classroom activities. The instructor is able to keep a file of these audio tapes and upload them when appropriate. For the average teacher making podcast for all lessons may not be an option. Over the course of several years a teacher can acquire a wide range of podcast to cover most all lessons or be a supplement to the lessons they are already teaching. As a public school teacher one of the more difficult task faced by an educator is I.E.P. modifications.

An I.E.P. modification is required by federal law and as a teacher we are required to follow everything written in I.E.P the most common modification I see is time allocation. Modify the assignment and allow the student to have more time to complete assignment. A podcast could help the learning disabled student several ways. The student has more time to take in the lecture. The student can go back a review the lesson from a first hand account of the class. The learning disabled student would be able to work with the teacher’s aid reviewing the lecture or the assignment via podcast.

Barriers the disabled student would face would include the ability to access the podcast. The student would use time outside the classroom listening to and learning the material. The student would need an iPod or other device to access the internet.

The school could write in the I.E.P. that the disabled student needs the IPod or laptop etc.

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