Creating a Persuasive Podcast
As part of my Fieldwork semester, I was asked by my cooperating
teacher to give a lesson on persuasive writing. For this reason, when I found
this lesson plan, I was amazed about the different ways of using technology to
introduce persuasive writing.
As I was examining my chosen lesson plan, I thought that the
strategies were great and really needed no change. The teacher went in depth in
modeling how to persuade somebody through a podcast found in the internet, her
modeled persuasive map and her own podcast. However, I did notice a gap between
the strategies and the curriculum goals. This lesson used two different
standards to show how the students should speak; yet, did not use any standards
to show how the students needed to evaluate the teacher’s podcast, as well as
their fellow students’ and to show how they had to write a good argument in
their persuasive map first, before creating their podcast. I found this to be
two essential goals that should have been highlighted in the lesson plan. In
addition, there are many smart board interactivities in the internet that can
be used to teach about podcasts and persuasive writing that would have gone
great with the lesson, as well as smart board tools that could have made the
modeling of the persuasive map more interactive for the students.
Overall, I think that the technologies
are definitely more effective than just plain lectures and group work. I really
loved the idea of creating a persuasive podcast particularly because the
students not only have the chance to improve their presentation skills, but
they also create something that they can then share with their peers.
Therefore, these technologies are necessary to engage the students in the
lesson.
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