Marc Prensky podcasts
Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, and designer in the critical areas of education and learning. He is the author of Digital Game-Based Learning (McGraw-Hill, 2001), the founder and CEO of Games2train (whose clients include IBM, Nokia, Pfizer, the US Department of Defense and the LA and Florida Virtual Schools) and creator of the sites DODGameCommunity and Social Impact Games.
'Engage me, not enrage me' podcast
In this podcast, Marc talks about finding ways to get today's kids more involved in their schoolwork. The key, he says, is not curriculum, certification or testing, but engagement. The accompanying PowerPoint file is the presentation by Marc which you hear on the podcast.
Just click on a link to play the file, or right-click and save the link (Ctrl-click on a Mac) if you want to download it to your computer. The files are available as mpeg4 files or mp3 files.
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MFLE Podcast 14: Marc Prensky on engaging pupils to get them involved in schoolwork - 33MB (m4a file)
MFLE Podcast 14: Marc Prensky on engaging pupils to get them involved in schoolwork - 34MB (mp3 file)
PowerPoint file: Presentation by Marc Prensky which accompanies MFLE Podcast 14 - 3MB
Marc Prensky on gaming
In this podcast, Marc outlines how gaming and game-making can help to learn language, amongst other subjects.
Just click on a link to play the file, or right-click and save the link (Ctrl-click on a Mac) if you want to download it to your computer. The files are available as mp3 files, which give audio only.
MFLE Podcast 15: Marc Prensky on games and game-making to help learning - 20MB (mp3 file)
Marc Prensky on student motivation
What are the differences in culture between the USA and UK? Can we predict what we might be doing with our kids by looking towards the USA? In this podcast, Marc Prensky shares his thoughts on raising student motivation in learning.
Just click on a link to play the file, or right-click and save the link (Ctrl-click on a Mac) if you want to download it to your computer. The files are available as mp3 files, which give audio only.
MFLE Podcast 16: Marc Prensky on raising student motivation - 20MB (mp3 file)
Podcast transcripts
We've created transcripts of MFLE podcasts 1 to 19, which you can download and read.