Podcast Reflection

I personally liked listening to the podcast. I am an auditory learner, so I absorb a lot more information by listening to information than by reading it. I vote listening to the text without visual modality. To prepare for an exam with a lesson or topic that is delivered by a podcast, I would listen to the podcast repeatedly until I felt confident that I had a good grasp on the material. I think that in a perfect world, every student would be evaluated in a way that suited them: orally, written, or maybe with a project of some sort instead of a run-of-the-mill paper/pencil test. Teachers would also have to get paid a lot more for the overtime they would be putting in creating that many different assessments. It is great to teach to different learning styles, but when it comes to evaluation, it’s not practical. I also think it would do students a disservice unless high-stakes testing, such as the TAKS test changes their format. If a student has never taken a standardized test, then they will not be as successful since they are not used to it. Could you imagine taking the SAT or ACT if you had never taken a standardized test in your life, let alone any paper test at all? If testing changes all the way up to college entrance exams, then I would be all for evaluating according to learning styles. Until then, I say teach and study according to learning styles, but do your best to learn how to take a paper/pencil test.