Student Listening Preferences and the Use of Storytelling to Teach About Community Resources.

Autor: Malenczak, Derek, Nascimento, Melanie
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Zdroj: Rehabilitation Research, Policy & Education; 2020, Vol. 34 Issue 1, p46-55, 10p, 2 Charts
Abstrakt: Background: Rehabilitation Counseling programs often require that the curriculum include education about basic community resource and entitlement programs for people with disabilities. The fact-based nature of this content can make it challenging for students to engage with in a meaningful way, especially in the online learning environment. Storytelling holds promise as a means to bring this content to life in online courses; however, little is known about how students interact with digital storytelling assignments. Objective: Podcasts may be a more convenient way to deliver the audio to the students, as use of the technology as well as overall smartphone usage has exploded in recent years. Methods: This article examines the results a survey of 44 students who reported their listening preferences for a weekly storytelling assignment. Findings: Results confirm previous findings in the literature about how students interact with academic podcasts. Conclusions: Despite their proliferation, students appear to approach podcast assignments similarly to how they woud any other online learning task. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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