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Potential of moving images recognised from early on "I
believe that the motion picture is destined to
revolutionize our educational system and that in a few
years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of
textbooks.” Thomas Edison, 1913
School TV... Films for Learning....
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Value of Video?
Plenty of scientific research that demonstrates a link
between the use of video as a teaching tool and
improved learning,
positive impact on the performance in reading, mathematics,
vocabulary, and learning capabilities (Wright 2001)
use of video and audio may effectively "reach more learners and
provide more opportunities for neural development and learning
(Gardner 2004)
the connection between visual clues, the memory process, and the
recall of new knowledge (Duchastel and Waller 1979, Shepard and
Cooper, 1982, Mayer and Gallini, 1990)
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Possible uses of video in the classroom
Broad categorisation of what video can do:
• Introductory
• Activity Based
• Affective Domain
• Cognitive Enablers
• Visual and Spatial
Introducing a Subject: Engaging,
Stimulating, Motivating
Hook/Stimulus clips
• Shock/surprise/delight
• Creating a sense of
suspense/uncertainty
• Posing a problem or issue to
be resolved
Introducing a Subject: Engaging,
Stimulating, Motivating
Hook/Stimulus clips
• Shock/surprise/delight
• Creating a sense of
suspense/uncertainty
• Posing a problem or issue to
be resolved
Signpost videos
• Introduction to the topic
• To provide a focus
• To provide a rationale for a
topic
• To flag up what is coming later
Activity Based: outcome directly related to
the use of the video
Observational clips:
• clips with rich visual or
audio content that
learners could be asked
to identify, spot, clips that
facilitate close
observation skills
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Activity Based: outcome directly related to
the use of the video
Observational clips:
• clips with rich visual or
audio content that
learners could be asked
to identify, spot, clips that
facilitate close
observation skills
Authoring:
• clips which enable
students to re-purpose or
edit the clip
Affective Domain: Facilitate
Empathy/Emotional Engagement
• Sensitise and
Emotionalise:
• Clips that signal a
change of mood,
tempo or topic
• Highly emotional,
charged clips (with a
rationale)
• Stunning, wow factor
clips (e.g. incredible
landscapes or wildlife
depictions)
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Et si c’etait toi…
Cognitive Enablers: analysis, synthesis,
interpretation
Predict, Observe,
Evaluate, student asked
to predict what happens
next
Compare and Contrast
Extrapolate and Predict -
open-ended, encourage
learners to consider what
would happen
Interpretation - explain
what is happening: i.e. it
is not automatically
obvious what the story or
content is about
Visual and Spatial: clear visual images
and imagery
• Special geographic
significance (e.g. specific
places, sites, etc)
• Clips with a strong visual
representation (e.g. art
works)
• Instructional (illustrating
a process)
• Dynamic Phenomena
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Nuclear Plant
• Find…
• Physics: Waves
• Pythagoras theorem
• Caterpillars
Selecting what Media to Use
Professionally produced
Pros/cons?
User Generated
Pros/cons?
