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.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
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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.
Additional Resources
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Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Visual Learning Tools Strategies
Advance graphic organizers link prior knowledge to upcoming learning to help students anticipate and understand the structure of new information.
Visualizing how ideas fit together helps students construct meaning and strengthens their recall.
Visuals help students recognize relationships within words and sentences to develop literacy skills.
Sentence frames or stems provide language support for students' writing and participation in academic discussions.
Videos developed with discussion guides can teach students about social and emotional learning (SEL) skills.
