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Why Use Video in the Classroom?
Teachers who use instructional video report that their students
retain more information, understand concepts more rapidly and are
more enthusiastic about what they are learning. With video as one
component in a thoughtful lesson plan, students often make new connections
between curriculum topics, and discover links between these topics
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Video is uniquely suited to:
- take students on impossible field trips--inside the human body,
or off to Jupiter
- take students around the globe, to meet new people and hear
their ideas
- illustrate complex, abstract concepts through animated, 3-D
images
- show experiments that can't be done in class
- bring great literature, plays, music, or important scenes from
history into the room
By exploiting the medium's power to deliver lasting images, teachers
can:
- reach children with a variety of learning styles, especially
visual learners, and students with a variety of information acquisition
styles
- engage students in problem-solving and investigative activities
- begin to dismantle social stereotypes
- help students practice media literacy and critical viewing
skills
- provide a common experience for students to discuss
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