Monday, August 10, 2009
Videos/YouTube in the classroom. See comment.
YouTube is a free video-sharing website, has quickly become a popular way to upload, share, view, and comment on video clips. These clips range from self-produced short films and performance videos to portions of mainstream film and TV. Youtube can offer immeasurable pedagogical learning opportunities for students of varying abilities and disabilities in a wide variety of KLA's within the classroom. For example, Youtube encompasses masses of educationally valuable learning tools for EAL and ESL students. Beare (2009) highlights this idea when he explains that 'these sites provide English learners and classes with a new tool to improve listening skills as well as offering authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people'.
"We must educate the students we have, not the student we used to have, nor the student we wished we had. We must adapt to today's student, not them adapting to us. We must adapt to their world of today's 21st century technology. We cannot teach like we've taught forever anymore. We must change ourselves to adapt to their world." (Sharing Technology 2009)
References
Beare.K (2008)YouTube in the Classroom. Retrieved 11 August 2009 from
http://esl.about.com/od/listeninglessonplans/a/youtube.htm
Sharing Technology: Using Youtube in the classroom. Retrieved 11 August 2009 from
http://teacherlingo.com/blogs/sharingtechnology/archive/2008/02/23/using-youtube-in-the-classroom.aspx
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This video could possibly be incorporated into a KWL learning experience to assist students in understanding the various elements of visual literacy. This video could be used for students of potentially all year levels. There is a wide scope of videos within the Youtube phenomena which could be utilised to assist EAL, ESL and students with a variety of learning abilities and disabilities.These sites also provide English learners and classes with a new tool to improve listening skills. English as a second language (2009) explains that the real advantage to these sites - at least from a language learning point of view - is that they offer authentic examples of everyday English used by everyday people.
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English as a second language (2009). Retrieved 10 August 2009 from http://esl.about.com/od/listeninglessonplans/a/youtube.htm