The document discusses empowering e-learning through podcasts for disengaged youth. It advocates being student-centered and driven, adaptable, and forgiving of adolescent insensitivity. Students chose podcasts as their preferred technology and were allowed to drive the project, with the goal of teaching to their stage of development rather than age. The document provides links to resources on using podcasts and getting student feedback.

1. How do you learn ? ?

2. Empowering e-learnering through podcasts. Kane Horwill, South West Tafe

3. 300 disengaged youth (16-21)

4. Don’t irritate your students by making it your boat.

5. Students Teachers

6. Students Teachers Engaged

7. Forgiving in adolescent insensitivity Dr Richard Opie, Warracknabeal Secondary http://www.cybertext.net.au/inet/cs2_3_27.htm

8. How to win friends and influence people dalecarnegie.com Rapport

9. Student centred and driven

10. Adaptable

11. What types of technology do your students like to use? What ways can they use their favourite technology to communicate? How we got the ball rolling

12. Our students chose podcasts.

13. How a podcast works and some real life examples.

14. Share course outcomes. Let the students choose how to reach their outcomes.

15. Teach to their stage not age.

16. Let the students drive the project.

17. What our web page looks like?

19. theflip.com

20. Learner opinions of project using a Flip Cam . Click here to see hear what our group had to say

21. Give lots of praise Transferrable skills Student centred Adaptable Forgiving of adolescent insensitivity Let your students know it’s OK to make mistakes Critical thinkers Global citizens Risk takers Stage not age Students to set their own challenging achievable tasks

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