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Learning by podcast in the fresh Colorado air!

02.02.17
posted by Lee Ann Obringer

Walking Classroom at Fort Carson school features learning by podcast in fresh Colorado air

Published by The Gazette in Colorado Springs, MCO
2/1/2017 | By Debbie Kelley

Sitting in class all day can get “kind of boring,” said 10-year-old Adrianna Moreno.

“You want to look around at stuff, and then the teacher tells you to pay attention, even though you’re still listening,” said Adrianna, a fourth-grader at Mountainside Elementary School in Fountain-Fort Carson School District 8.

That’s not an issue during “The Walking Classroom,” an idea from a national nonprofit organization that takes kids outside for a podcast lesson.

“It’s great,” Adrianna said. “You can look and listen at the same time.”

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