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The Use of Media in Education

Background and short history of education and the media

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Short History of Media

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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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ICT in education

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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 GeneratedPros/cons?