Podcasts can be a valuable learning tool
and will support social emotional learning too.
Quality podcasts designed for children can improve Listening skills and build engagement by offering multitudes of topics. Kids learn about science, history, and culture. Listeners can hear stories from around the world by an infinite number of diverse authors.
Speaking and listening are critical life skills. Listening to podcasts, especially together, Starts dialogue and builds conversation skills. It keeps us curious and encourages questions and exploration of new ideas.
Podcasts as a replacement for Reading? NO, but as an engaging literacy support? YES. Listening carefully, developing voice, creating mind pictures and fostering creative thinking are complex reading skills. Podcasts also expose us to new words and phrases which builds vocabulary. all of this leading to children becoming readers.
How can podcasts support SEL? Communication, self-awareness, empathy, problem-solving, and self-control are all skills that typically fall under SEL. Listening to podcasts benefits children in the same ways that reading and thinking about good book does. Listening connect students to others who are like themselves, and also expose them to new people, places, experiences and ideas. Read Book Love for questions to help you talk about books (and podcasts!) Listening to podcasts together can foster strong relationships. if children and their important adults listen together the benefits increase. They are a fun media alternative that brings families together — no screens required.
Give podcast a try, you will be surprised at the benefits.
Share these and other podcasts with kids to help them develop essential skills, develop their communication and literacy skills, and become confident and complex thinkers.
Check Out These Great Lists from Common Sense:
Podcasts for Social Emotional Learning
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Need More Convincing? Watch Bellow for some GREAT recommendations
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