Videos
Overview
Providing visuals to introduce, support, or review instruction activates more cognitive processes to support learning. Videos also allow students to experience problems and scenes outside the classroom, capturing their Attention by bringing in different cultures and experiences (one strategy for culturally responsive teaching) and engaging them in authentic learning opportunities.
Example: Use This Strategy in the Classroom
Starting at 5:20, watch how this teacher has his students to create their own math music videos. Being in charge of this creative process enhances students' retention of math content.
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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
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Visual Learning Tools Strategies
Visualizing how ideas fit together helps students construct meaning and strengthens recall.
Visual representations help students understand what a number represents as well as recognize relationships between numbers.
Sentence frames or stems can serve as language support to enrich students' participation in academic discussions.
