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Plan to Make It Interactive
Make video part of your lesson—not the whole lesson—by using only the portions of video that you need.
Teach the Whole Class
Students achieve more when they spend most of their class time interacting with their teacher, so keep the whole class together during video-related activities. Work with small groups or individuals while students practice using new skills and knowledge.
Break Content into Small Chunks
Breaking video content into small chunks, surrounded by discussion and other tasks, allows students to easily digest and retain information, and keeps things moving quickly to sustain student interest.
Prepare Students to View Effectively
Explain the main ideas in the video and list them on the board. Go over any new or recent vocabulary words that the students will encounter. Give students a focus for the viewing activity: have them watch or listen for specific information or images, or give them a task to complete during or after the video.
Help Students Organize, Store, and Retrieve Knowledge
Good information organizers used during a lesson can help students later to retrieve knowledge easily and apply it to new situations and real-life problems.
- Advance Organizers present general information before more specific instruction.
- Graphic Organizers are charts and diagrams that help students map out the structure of the content being shown (e.g., relationships between
major and minor ideas).
- Study Guides provide prompts for student responses during or after the video.
- Post Organizers check to see if students have learned the new material, and forecast opportunities to apply it in upcoming lessons.
Include Real-Life Applications
Students need to learn factual information, how to use their knowledge in specific ways (procedural knowledge), and when and where to apply the knowledge (conditional knowledge). Video can provide factual information and help demonstrate knowledge-application skills.
Stop the Video
Periodically stop the video to ask questions, check for understanding, stimulate critical thinking, and make sure that all students are actively involved in the lesson. Pausing the video also gives students a chance to look more closely at an image, make predictions, and record information.
Ask Questions about the Video
- Ask questions before, during, and after the learning experience.
- Focus on what’s important, not what’s unusual.
- Ask questions that require students to think critically and make inferences.
- Give students time to respond completely, think during their response, and elaborate.
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