1. Laila Shawwa

2.  Engaging for all students of all ages and all
learning levels.
 Allows the students to strive to achieve more.
No matter what the students’ learning level
is, videos allow the teacher to have students
learn in different ways that are more
engaging and rewarding.

3.  Analyzing, synthesizing, creating.

4.  Allows students to be creative and apply their
skills and understanding into a project.
 Forces students to make connections and
understanding in greater depth and meaning.
 Students learn to analyze, synthesize and
create.

5. PROS CONS
 Fun  Time consuming.
 Engages students
 Helps students retain and  May not be as effective as
understand classroom content the teacher would like it to
 Students can express their
creativity be if not taken seriously.
 Students to practice “real-life”  Students may not enjoy
skills:
 Planning making a video or may not
 Organizing like being on the camera.
 Time management
 Problem solving
 Leads students to improve their
technology skills.

6.  Brings the real world into the classroom.
 Improves presentation skills.
 Attends to different learning styles and helps
the more visual students to understand
concepts.
 Allows more “wiggle room” to give options
for students to learn and retain information.

7.  Apply, analyze, and synthesize.

8.  First of all, in order to ensure that you are
reaching the students, videos should be
relatively short, they should be interesting, and
should be age appropriate.
 Videos should be used as an enhancement to a
lesson.
 More interactive and close to real life
experiences.
 Watching videos forces students to analyze and
synthesize in order for them to further
understand concepts. It also helps them apply
things to real life.

9. PROS CONS
 Draws students in  If teacher does not watch video
before hand, it could have
 Engaging inappropriate things. Keep in
mind:
 Fun  Subject matter
 Helps with a diverse  Classroom level
 Age appropriate
learning style classroom  Sometimes certain websites are
 Closes the “digital divide” blocked and the video won’t show
up
 Students make take watching a
video as time to relax. An activity
or discussion should be
accompanied with it in order for
the students to be paying
attention.