Using Video and Images to Enhance Scientific Understanding
A counterargument to the alarmist speakers:it’s important to differentiate facts, he says (Urban School). Don’t worry if you are not podcasting, blogging, downloading iTunes books and lectures all at the same time.
Urban School focuses on depth over breadth, value student ownership of their work
What are some of the benefits of students visualizing their understanding?
Students have the ability to see/relate dynamic processes
Interactive Physics his favorite software
a molecue–if you can’t rotate it, you can’t understand it (Odyssey helps you do this) He gave students an assignment to make their own animations to demonstrate their understanding of a chemical concept (took one lab class to do this)
Using video analysis software, they can immediately create graphs and tease out meaning of it
Students understand the relationship better, the question is much more like the scientific method…models the scientific method. Then used video analysis software to analyze (data studio?)
Students who struggle with math are helped with this visual learning–begs question: how necessary is the math? When so much of science is analyzed on the computer…
All learners benefit
He uses these for review, instruction, and keeps all vids online
(using clay) iMovie or Movie Maker
Dynamic processes require a dynamic medium
He took his students to a trapeze school; students each required to "swing"; each student wearing a motion detector; videotaped
They focus on finding ways to increase student understanding –choose software that matches task (all software is not necessarily science software)
Tech dept does not teach software to students–all tech skills are taught by teachers in the classroom