The Edible Schoolyard AND A Night in the Global Village

The first podcast I listened to was "The Edible Schoolyard". The edible schoolyard refers to an outdoor classroom at Martin Luther King Junior Middle School in Berkeley, CA. This school has a garden where kids spend their morning planting, watering, and tending to the crops. This gives the students a chance to participate in something that they may not really associate with school work. The teachers use the garden to relate things to Social Studies, Math, Science, and Life. The students get to go through the whole process of growing crops and get a better understanding.

I think that this podcast could be used in the classroom or maybe even take things from this podcast to make your students more involved. As future educators we need to have the means to make school fun and want the kids to learn and not be kept up inside the whole time. This podcast could give students the extra push to want to make a difference in their school.

The other podcast I listened to was "A Night in the Global Village". This podcast was very interesting. It was about a Heifer Ranch set up in Perryville, AK. At this ranch students are taught the importance of walking in someone else shoes through poverty and hunger. On this five acre ranch different living conditions are set up to simulate different countries. The students are put into groups and have to live in the conditions of the country they are assigned. The students have to bargain with the surrounding other villages in order to get food, water, or maybe even for their fire. These students get an up close experience of being in poverty and being hungry.

I think that this podcast would be a great one to use as a future educator. This podcast teaches the importance of different cultures and the conditions that they live in. In this podcast some of the students even had to act as if they were pregnant or had the lose of an arm. I thought this to serve even more as an example of how people of poverty live because not are healthy and have to deal with difficult situations.

Overall I liked both of these podcast they serve as a great educational tool for us as future educators and give us some advice on issues we may need to address.