Hi Everyone!
This is mine and Nik’s website on Video Primary:
https://sites.google.com/view/videoprimary/home
Throughout our site, we provide an overview of how video can be integrated into classroom teaching. We emphasize its many benefits for student learning and engagement, including its ability to break down complex concepts into more accessible ideas and to support a wide range of learning styles. We particularly focus on the use of video in English and Science classrooms, offering examples of how it can be used to enhance learning in both subject areas.
Below are some discussion questions to reflect on:
- How do you use video in your subject area to support student learning?
- In what ways does incorporating video promote engagement and critical thinking among students?
- What challenges might teachers face when integrating video into their lessons? Are there solutions to these challenges?
- How can teachers ensure that students are truly learning from the videos? Rather than just passively viewing them.
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Awesome site Mandy and Nik! I really liked how much video content you guys curated, it’s obvious there is a lot of love for using video in class.
Here are a couple thoughts I had while viewing.
In what ways does incorporating video promote engagement and critical thinking among students?
As I mentioned in an earlier Canvas post, I have found the emergence of DIY video incredibly important to my own learning journey. Not only for the documentaries that helped me learn the broad strokes of history, but more importantly I likely would have never learned to play guitar without YouTube. Before the internet third party media were usually books or DVDs/VHS. These were awful, no matter what famous guitar player was peddling this crap, the videos were always too slow and the lessons overly structured for me who just wanted to learn to play some songs (songs that I actually wanted to learn.) YouTube provided this, even by 2010 it was rare to not find a fully realized video guitar lesson for most songs you would hear on the radio or tv.
As far as video in the classroom – and please correct me if it’s in there – but one piece I found myself missing was the role that actually having students produce their own videos can play in this process. I’ve really enjoyed the few opportunities I’ve had to create videos during the MET program, and it made me wonder if you came across any research on students producing videos themselves?
Really great job!
I love your learning resources! I also like how you incorporated video through out the video.
1. Although I understand the benefits of using videos, I do not create them often in my work due to challenges with maintainability. For example, we used to produce video tutorials for our learning management system (LMS), but every time the interface was updated, we had to recreate the entire video. I was wondering, for subjects that require frequent updates (such as immigration law), what strategies can be used to ensure that the content remains current?
2. I believe that videos help to chunk the content, making it easier for students to digest the information compared to a wall of text. However, when it comes to critical thinking, I am not sure that video content alone promotes it unless the video includes question prompts or visual elements that encourage students to think critically. For example, a video might present a series of metaphorical images and prompt students to interpret their meaning.
3. Similar to what I mentioned in my first answer, one of the main challenges is the difficulty of maintaining video content. For subjects that require frequent updates, it becomes difficult to keep the videos current.
4. One approach teachers can take is to scaffold the video content with quizzes or supplementary materials. For example, they can add quizzes directly within the video using tools such as H5P’s Interactive Video activity. https://h5p.org/interactive-video