As screens become more prominent in classrooms, podcasting offers an audio-based option that calls on imaginative and mental modeling skills. Without visuals to lean on, students build their own images using creativity, comprehension, and their understanding of lesson material. Podcast host Guy Raz calls the blank canvas of an audio project the “theater of the mind,” where students build their worlds through words. At a time when schools wrestle with attention drift and device fatigue, th...
