Once known as audio blogs, podcasts were relegated to fringe communities during the early days of the internet. But now, thanks in large part to the advent of the smartphone, they are a near-universally known form of mass communication that has grown into an $18 billion business—a number only expected to grow annually.
It’s a fair bet that most of the learners in your classroom are regularly exposed to podcasts, so if we’re looking for PBL projects that are relevant, connected to the lived experiences of our learners, and connected to their interests, we can’t do much better than creating podcasts. This is no doubt why there’s always at least one podcast project in every PBL workshop I facilitate.