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home. Podcasting can be tailored to any curriculum area. Some of the areas that are most often
associated with it are: ICT, PHSE, citizenship, modern foreign languages, speaking and listening
objectives, and communication skills.
Podcasting helps improve pupils’ presentation work and can be especially powerful for
reluctant writers or those with reading difficulty. Podcasting promotes personalised learning. It
allows resources and activities to be tailored to individual children’s requirements. Podcasting
gives the opportunity for pupils and schools to communicate with an audience. The audience can
be internal - within the school, between pupils and teachers or peer to peer, or external - within
the wider community. As with all technologies, podcasting has the potential for releasing the
imagination of children, young people, their teachers and parents/carers.
E-safety
Protecting child identity
As with other technologies it is important to protect the identity of children who take part in the
podcast. They should only reveal one piece of personal information in a podcast. However, they
could invent pseudonyms.
As with any communication technology it is important that children are taught to behave
responsibly. Most schools have an Internet policy which could include podcasting which parents
and pupils sign up to.
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