Blog post 19: Using video for teaching and learning

http://ed.ted.com/on/HD6kgNma

In this assignment for the week using videos for teaching and learning, was a great eye opener.  I did not know about this new tech tool!!! It is virtually cutting teachers work by facilitating lessons about many different subjects and contents.  This is so handy to have as a teacher resource because students need to be exposed to many forms of instructional materials so that they can relate to the new information.  Video is a strong influence with students because it engages students attention instead of just reading off the textbook.

The videos have subtitles where students can be reading off or can be in different languages in which case I would use the Spanish subtitles for the ELL students.  Students can answer the questions you assign and have the video next in the screen where they can stop,  listen and watch the video again for the information needed to answer the questions the teacher has assigned for the assignment.  The discussion board is handy too so that students can use their higher order thinking capacities to participate in the classrooms discussion about the video lesson and share among themselves about their perspectives about the video and assignments.

I would use the TED-Ed videos in the following ways:  First, as a teacher I would use this video technology in my 5th grade classroom to introduce what is going to be my final project subject matter of Social Studies.  I would add as many connecting links about the timeline to introduce the students with different eras of history.  The link above is related to the 13 Original Colonies where students will be exposed to different video links about the colonies and there would be small assignments about the videos that I would create to specifically help the students with their own year long project.   Second, students could also look up other videos about the time in history we would be working on so that they can have several  different informational references.  Third, the students could also add video links into their assignments to make their presentations more appealing.  There are many educational channels but this one on TED-Ed is made specifically for teachers with lessons already created or if needed a teacher can just flip the video lesson to accommodate the plans the teacher has in mind.  I particularly like the aspect that a teacher can add their own questions in the THINK section of the lesson plan by adding up to 15 questions for the students to answer.  In the Dig Deeper and the Discuss section of the plans a teacher can include open ended questions where the students would have to answer in a written narrative format about the lesson and gives the teacher the opportunity to really find out if the students really understood the lesson or if we need to adjust our form of re-teaching it.  This TED-Ed video lessons is a wonderful resource for new teachers who have a hard time trying to come up with different forms to engage students in their learning.   I am definitely going to use this in my everyday teaching.