Videos

Overview

Providing visuals to introduce, support, or review instruction activates more cognitive processes to support learning. Videos also allow students to experience stories and scenes outside the classroom by capturing their Attention, bringing in different cultures and experiences, and engaging them in authentic learning opportunities.

Use It in the Classroom

While videos can be engaging on their own, teachers need to plan additional activities in conjunction with using videos to support their learning objectives. This intentional combination is essential to activating the full learning potential of videos to build students' understanding.

Design It into Your Product

Videos are chosen as examples of strategies in action. These choices are not endorsements of the products or evidence of use of research to develop the feature.

See how EDpuzzle allows teachers to edit, customize, and enhance existing videos to meet their classroom needs. Teachers can isolate the parts of videos they want, record their own voice, and embed questions to check for student understanding.

Products can easily incorporate video clips and add prompts for student response and active engagement when viewing. With functionalities like commenting or asking questions, students can interact with and connect more deeply to the material.

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Resources

Below are additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.

Benefits of Using Educational Video

Benefits of videos in the classroom and considerations to ensure effective use

Multimedia Learning

Subtopic that includes research on the use of multimedia and visuals in instruction on Digital Promise's Research Map

Teacher's Guide to Using Videos

MindShift guide with resources and tips for using videos in the classroom

Thinking Critically about Video

Common Sense Education strategies and lesson activities to stimulate critical thinking

WatchKnowLearn Reading Videos

Database with hundreds of reading videos