The use of video production in a classroom can be a great method to both teach and assess materials within class. By assigning or allowing students to choose a topic of the video, the students will need to research various aspects of the topic. This research step of the video production will feel less 'academic' and much more approachable to students than the typical classroom research setting. By viewing the video product of the assignment, either with the class, or with just the students involved, the teacher can effectively assess the students' understanding of the concept that they were trying to convey in the video. In this point in time where essentially everyone has a smartphone equipped with camera, editing software, as well as the means to research the internet, all in one device, this type of project is very much manageable. the teachers will not necessarily have to provide a camera, hardware involved in traditional editing etc. As time passes and the technology continues to advance, integrating video projects like this will only become easier and more necessary.
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In the case study video, a classroom was seen building boats and documenting their progress through the use of ipads. While the teacher in charge did seem slightly overwhelmed with the integration of technology into the lesson, she articulates her willingness to let go and the surprising positive results that the integration showed. The students were able to search on the internet, blueprints and schematics for boats to inform their own designs, effectively learning both the vocabulary, and the purposes of the various pieces of the boats in the process. The students also documented their trial-and-error process of their boat designs through the use of ipads provided to them. This served as an effective assessment tool for the teacher, more importantly however, it served as a way to teach important video editing skills.
The use of video documentation served as a great way to visualize the learning accomplished by the students. The video blogs sparked discussions amongst teachers, provided a platform to present positive reinforcements for the parents who had an opportunity to watch the video. The videos gave a linear, step by step update on the students’ progress on their designs and the trial floats, allowing the teacher to refer back to previous videos in order to effectively assess the students’ progress. Additional communication technology could have been used to assist the teacher in finding a little more control over the class. A live communication blog could have been used within the class to give a faster and more accurate progress updates to the teacher, and pass questions and answers back and forth in real time between students and teachers. The video demonstrated a project that was both effective and fun. The students’ learning outcomes were multidimensional in science, communications, and technology. The teacher merely served as a guide and allowed the students creative freedom to run with their ideas and justify them with their progression checks through the video blogs. -technology can be incredibly effective in a classroom, only if used correctly
-there are a countless number of resources out there for a teacher to use in their classrooms -specificity is key when using search engines I believe that technology can be a positive addition to education, both in making use of the technology as teaching tools to enhance other curriculum and as a curriculum to be taught in of itself. The use of technology as a teaching tool can not only streamline the process of lesson planning and teaching, but often today’s students connect with information and concepts better through the use of the various forms of media only available on devices such as computers, and smartboards. Technology in a classroom allows for a streamlined process of interaction when students are apart, allow for a much more effective teacher to student and teacher to parent communication, not to mention the benefits of reduced usage of paper and other classroom supplies. While the rapid changes occurring within the development of technology can be difficult to keep up with, as educators we should try and keep up with the changes in order to optimize our teaching tools. The importance of technology as a curriculum should not be understated especially at the older high school and university/college level. More and more research material is becoming exclusive to an online format, and certain subjects and topics are moving away from the physical copies of books in libraries. In the current job market, moderate computer literacy is a basic requirement.
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