When students know their work has public attention, from their peers and school and the wider community, it changes the nature of how and what they learn. It inspires and engages students and the learning is more valued.
Meta Learning
When students can see themselves working, they learn about their own learning and the learning processes.
Creating an Experience
Video creates an experience of a lesson or activity. These learning activities are a lot more immersive and fun, as well as more appealing and engaging.
That's what makes everything worthwhile.
Video Learning
Videos produced by one class can be used for current and future classes to jumpstart a lesson.
Improving Speaking
Use video to improve speaking and performance skills.
Revision
A topic can be re-introduced and revised visually; students respond well to watching themselves doing the original activity.
Reinforce
Reinforcement of a topic or concept.
Recounts
Video can be used as a stimulus for recounts.
Procedural Writing
Videos can be used as a stimulus for procedural writing, motivation is increased when the students themselves are involved.
Planning
Videos can be used as a planning stimulus to improve future activities.
Analyze and Refine
Videos can be used to identify problems and rectify them. For both teachers and students.
Video provides a better, more immersive and meaningful learning experience for students. And the results pay off immensely!
"Experienced teachers have had enough," Professor Riley says.
Comments like
I don't know how much longer I can take this"
I love teaching but 80% of the time you are doing something else and not teaching."
I need a break
Teachers are leaving the profession in significant numbers — the latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics suggest 53 percent of people who hold a teaching degree, do not currently work in education.
Although the figure varies by locality, about 40 to 50 percent of our newest teachers leave within their first five years on the job.
Why are they leaving
These graduates are leaving for various reasons, but similar themes recur: they feel burnt out, unsupported, frustrated and disillusioned.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-04/why-do-teachers-leave/8234054
There must be a better way.
1. The International Baccalaureate Curriculum is a fully developed curriculum supplied to teachers, they do not program, they implement an existing program. A huge amount of teacher time could be reduced by implementing this system in Australian schools.
2. Testing should be drastically reduced and if required should be conducted online and automatically marked with results feeding into individual student reports.
3. Report writing should be streamlined, all data entry should be automated directly from existing programs students are working on, eg Mathletics, Reading Eggs etc. REport categories should be reduced. Reporting on individual outcomes removed.
4. Reduction of administrative task undertaken by teachers from the current 80% to say 20% by using automation and administrative staff.
Get back time to be creative and inspiring and collegial, and let teachers do the job they love - teaching
