One of my favorite things about Listenwise is giving students autonomy so they’re able to listen to a podcast as many times as they need it so they can get as many “at bats” as they need without having to rely on a teacher or another student to help them out. Students are often shy or too embarrassed to ask a teacher to repeat it after 2 or 3 times, and they would have the ability to do it by themselves on a computer.
My students often tell me that ELD is the most boring part of the day and their least favorite class. I think part of it is that it’s a lot of slideshows and a lot of “teacher talk”, and I think this would help move it to more of a student lift. Even little parts like having their own computer, being able to start and stop the podcast themself, choose the video themselves, would be really exciting and much more engaging because they would have more autonomy in the classroom.
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