The Creative Disruption podcast was an experimental pedagogical podcast on creative ideas and innovation featuring personal stories of people using disruptive ideas and technology. It was meant to engage students from a different perspective outside the traditional classroom and create new spaces for discussion and critical thinking. The podcast learning experiment ran during the Spring 2016 semester.
With technological advances touching all fields it forces everyone to rethink the status-quo and adapt to new ways of doing things.
Teaching is no exception to this. It started out with "readers" who would read books to their students. Books were expensive and hard to come by as they were hand written. After that, printing press books became more common and that was a way to pass on knowledge along side instruction by a lecturer.
Then teachers had chalkboards to pass on the knowledge and explain the material. After that there were white boards. Back in the 1960s Slides used to take physical form and were 35mm. In the 1990s classrooms used Overhead Projectors where the teacher would draw on a clear sheet on top of the overhead projector and it would be projected onto the wall.
During this time schools started having more and more computer labs where students could go and use computers to learn and do their assignments. After everyone could afford having their own computer and the internet became more prevalent it was incorporated into the classroom with web interfaces for uploading assignments and receiving feedback or class updates.
Given the versatility of the digital components of learning - remote learning took off and has been growing ever since.
Youtube also hosts quite a few instructional videos and the Open classroom intiative which many universities take part in offer mixed media curriculum and the option for credits.
The popularity of podcasts makes them a great addition to the classroom material and the increasingly mixed media environment that teachers work in.
The creative disruption podcast piloted podcasts as a supplement to the classroom material in efforts to engage the students in a new and fun way.
The next pedagogical experiment, I'd like to conduct, would be using virtual reality and augmented reality to engage the students with the curriculum. There are endless possibilities and they also classify as technologies have creatively disrupted the classroom.
I hope you enjoyed the podcast!
Bye for now!