Spotify is a digital streaming service that includes access to music, podcasts, and videos from artists and networks all over the globe. Spotify is a Swedish-based streaming service and it was launched in October 2008. Basic access to Spotify is free such as playing podcasts and music in shuffle mode. Users are offered the option to upgrade to premium Spotify which is ad-free, offers music, podcasts, and videos to be downloadable offline, and the option to choose songs directly (rather than shuffle mode). While Spotify is free, Premium Spotify only costs $4.99 a month for students and it includes a subscription to Hulu and Showtime as well (for non-students it is $9.99 per month).
Spotify's software includes a ton of custom and personalized features for user to enjoy. For example, Spotify includes daily motivational podcasts, wakeup playlists with a mix of morning songs and words of wisdom, daily mixes of music they listen to organized by genre, new music playlists that they think you would enjoy based on your listening history, and thousands of podcasts.
As a future teacher, I would say Spotify is a great tool to use in the classroom. A teacher could use this app to assign podcasts for students to listen to and analyze/write about. Podcasts could also be used to fill out worksheets or as study tools. Not to mention, as a teacher, I would personally use Spotify to play music during class or wellness/meditation tracks. Spotify is available as an iOS or Android app as well as downloadable on Macs or PC's.
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