Direct Instruction - School Video in Your Lesson
While school videos are often the topic of debate between educators and administrators, the educational value associated with the use of such media in the classroom is indisputable.
Of course, none of the promised benefits can be realized without some effort on the part of the educator and participation on the part of the student.
What Does Video Offer? With visual tools, you can offer your students so much more to a lesson than other tools can provide.
Such an approach allows your students to almost experience the same thing they are viewing without ever leaving the room.
This allows students to travel to different places and through time.
Events and places are brought to life for students, enabling them to make a connection with what they are seeing and retaining it for future use.
The use of school videos also allows your students to gain better understanding of skills or physical processes that are difficult to conceptualize without visual assistance.
They can also be used to model positive behavior and to motivate students.
When used as a review or reinforcement tool, videos extend a lesson you have already given and strengthens it for those students who learn better with visual tools.
What Does Research Tell Us? Many studies have examined the use of video in the classroom to determine its effectiveness and whether or not it should be encouraged.
Those features that tend to provide the most benefit include the ability to zoom into detail; time-lapse or frame stops to allow for perspective changes; and manipulation of sound and visual elements help to create a more suitable learning experience.
How Does it Play into Active Learning? Students today are used to very stimulating entertainment, putting even more pressure on you as the teacher to perform.
The proper integration of school videos into the curriculum helps to engage students in a process that better matches their mental capacity for absorbing information.
To maximize this active learning, encourage group activities; allow students to be curious and speculate about the video; and allow your students to use the knowledge they already have to create their own input in relation to the video.
What Are General Principles for Video Use in the Classroom? First and foremost, preview the video before use in the classroom so you can use it to your greatest benefit in the classroom.
Then, prepare pre- and post-viewing activities that allow your students to understand why they are watching the video in the first place.
In addition, discuss the video with your students and how it relates to the lesson.
Use the opportunity to introduce vocabulary or other concepts that may be new to the class.
You can also engage in hands-on activities to provide the necessary background on the video.
What Should You Remember While Watching the Video? It is important to avoid watching the video as if you were watching television.
Students will quickly tune out and gain little from the viewing.
Modify the experience by stopping the video and discussing the content.
View only certain sections of the video or end the video before it actually concludes and allow the students to determine the ending.
How Does the Video Promote Active Learning? There are a number of ways that you can promote active learning by using the video: Focus questions - keep students keyed into specific concepts.
Viewing worksheets - such activities require students to become more actively engaged.
Viewing with stops - when carefully chosen, stop points enhance attention and engagement.
View without sound - allows students to provide the narration and predict what will happen.
View without visuals - students visualize the content to enhance learning.
Post-activities - encourages students to use the information they just gathered.
How Can You Evaluate Educational Videos? There are a number of effective methods for choosing school videos, but following a few general principles will help in the process.
Try to select videos as a group; view the video from a student's perspective; consider evaluation criteria while viewing; and examine the entire video and resource package.
Look for a number of positives in the video, including variation in the presentation; age-appropriate humor; chunking or organization in sections; and opportunities for students to think individually.
Those flags that should warn you away from videos include excessive use of talking heads; illegible or poorly designed titles; unnecessary recitation facts; in consistency between visual and narration; pacing issues; excessive use of slides; poor role-modeling; over simplification; lack of relevancy; and an overuse of special effects.
If you're ready to start using video in the classroom effectively, your next step is to download a free copy of "The 7 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make Using Video in the Classroom" right now.
Of course, none of the promised benefits can be realized without some effort on the part of the educator and participation on the part of the student.
What Does Video Offer? With visual tools, you can offer your students so much more to a lesson than other tools can provide.
Such an approach allows your students to almost experience the same thing they are viewing without ever leaving the room.
This allows students to travel to different places and through time.
Events and places are brought to life for students, enabling them to make a connection with what they are seeing and retaining it for future use.
The use of school videos also allows your students to gain better understanding of skills or physical processes that are difficult to conceptualize without visual assistance.
They can also be used to model positive behavior and to motivate students.
When used as a review or reinforcement tool, videos extend a lesson you have already given and strengthens it for those students who learn better with visual tools.
What Does Research Tell Us? Many studies have examined the use of video in the classroom to determine its effectiveness and whether or not it should be encouraged.
Those features that tend to provide the most benefit include the ability to zoom into detail; time-lapse or frame stops to allow for perspective changes; and manipulation of sound and visual elements help to create a more suitable learning experience.
How Does it Play into Active Learning? Students today are used to very stimulating entertainment, putting even more pressure on you as the teacher to perform.
The proper integration of school videos into the curriculum helps to engage students in a process that better matches their mental capacity for absorbing information.
To maximize this active learning, encourage group activities; allow students to be curious and speculate about the video; and allow your students to use the knowledge they already have to create their own input in relation to the video.
What Are General Principles for Video Use in the Classroom? First and foremost, preview the video before use in the classroom so you can use it to your greatest benefit in the classroom.
Then, prepare pre- and post-viewing activities that allow your students to understand why they are watching the video in the first place.
In addition, discuss the video with your students and how it relates to the lesson.
Use the opportunity to introduce vocabulary or other concepts that may be new to the class.
You can also engage in hands-on activities to provide the necessary background on the video.
What Should You Remember While Watching the Video? It is important to avoid watching the video as if you were watching television.
Students will quickly tune out and gain little from the viewing.
Modify the experience by stopping the video and discussing the content.
View only certain sections of the video or end the video before it actually concludes and allow the students to determine the ending.
How Does the Video Promote Active Learning? There are a number of ways that you can promote active learning by using the video: Focus questions - keep students keyed into specific concepts.
Viewing worksheets - such activities require students to become more actively engaged.
Viewing with stops - when carefully chosen, stop points enhance attention and engagement.
View without sound - allows students to provide the narration and predict what will happen.
View without visuals - students visualize the content to enhance learning.
Post-activities - encourages students to use the information they just gathered.
How Can You Evaluate Educational Videos? There are a number of effective methods for choosing school videos, but following a few general principles will help in the process.
Try to select videos as a group; view the video from a student's perspective; consider evaluation criteria while viewing; and examine the entire video and resource package.
Look for a number of positives in the video, including variation in the presentation; age-appropriate humor; chunking or organization in sections; and opportunities for students to think individually.
Those flags that should warn you away from videos include excessive use of talking heads; illegible or poorly designed titles; unnecessary recitation facts; in consistency between visual and narration; pacing issues; excessive use of slides; poor role-modeling; over simplification; lack of relevancy; and an overuse of special effects.
If you're ready to start using video in the classroom effectively, your next step is to download a free copy of "The 7 Biggest Mistakes Teachers Make Using Video in the Classroom" right now.