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I've had an idea regarding use of video (probably not original - those who can, please point me to where it may already be developed or even implemented), and would welcome thoughts on it.
Now that digital video (DV) editing tools have become common and even intuitive, many teachers are now using them with students on course projects or with colleagues in professional development activities. But why stop there?
Secondary teachers could or should be said to have general knowledge of their material, with particular interests yielding improved presentation of specific topics. However, few, if any, excel with everything covered in the course.
Wouldn't it be nice, when reaching Topic X in Course Y, to be able to call up free online one or several short videos for the topic's introduction or detailed explanation? Teachers would be able to focus more on helping students understand, rather than taking sole responsibility for getting them from scratch to mastery. Showing or having available several such DV pieces would allow more students, via a variety of presentations, to make the connections they need before the pernicious belief sets in that they just aren't good at the subject. Students could get in on the effort by recording how given topics for them moved from ambiguity to clarity.
Consider if only one in every hundred teachers of government or geometry or geology, etc., posted a three to ten minute video piece. While I don't know the exact numbers, it would surely add up to a trove of resources for anyone with a halfway-decent connection to the internet.
Consider teachers in rural areas of the US, or those in countries where teachers have many hundreds of students at a time. Those like them who are spread especially thin would benefit from being able to devote time more efficiently to their lesson preparation.
Is there a barrier to doing this? The equipment is available widely at costs which are relatively reasonable. It takes surprisingly little time to learn to edit video using iMovie or similar products. OurMedia.org or even the Digital Divide Network could host some number of videos. An individual's time up front would pay off many times over if other quality material were available from here, there, and everywhere.
Hopefully this could be a major step forward in the face of schools' seemingly perpetual tendency to reinvent wheels.
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April 10th, 2005 @ 5:37PM |
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