The Teaching Space

Episode 34 of The Teaching Space Podcast explores how audiobooks and podcasts can be helpful and perhaps are essential in CPD.  Here are the show notes for this episode. Introduction I’ve been listening to podcasts and audiobooks since before they were mainstream. Podcasts came first. I produced my first podcast almost 10 years ago, so I’d been listening to podcasts for a few years before that. My first podcast listening experience was an amazing knitting podcast called Electric Sheep. Sadly, she is no longer podcasting. But the fact that I could listen to someone talking about knitting, and knit was amazing to me. The division of my attention was so much better than, say, watching TV and knitting.  I always loved the convenience of audio podcasts and that convinced me to try audiobooks.  A Word on Multi-Tasking If you’ve been listening to the show for a while you’ll know my position on multi-tasking. There’s no such thing! It’s called task switching. You will get more done if you focus on doing just one thin