Youtube as teacher resource exchange
We knew it would only be a matter of time before the IB learning community began to inhabit media sharing sites such as YouTube and Flickr. Here are two examples we’ve come across recently - both from YouTube.
The first is a PYP exhibition sample, contributed by students and teachers at the International School of Tianjin, China.
The second example is from a TOK student in the Diploma Programme. We don’t know who he is or where he’s from, as there are no end credits, but we think you’ll enjoy it nevertheless:
With either video, we make no claims as to their adherence to programme requirements. What we do want to do, though, is use them to highlight a number of important issues.
The first is that they’re two examples of students using new technologies to get a message across and show evidence of learning. This is something we will need to come to terms with as a curriculum and assessment authority, and particularly as an awarding body, in the future. Recognising student learning, when evidence of it is so dispersed on the web, will be a real challenge for us in the years ahead.
The second is that they’re both examples of resources which can help teachers in furthering their understanding of the programmes. Discussions around what’s good, and not so good, about them are invaluable for teachers as they attempt to come to terms with programme requirements and continuously improve their practice.
Thirdly, and as a corollary of the above two points, where these examples are located will increasingly be irrelevant. What is important is how we describe them (ie what metadata will we need to establish and use in order to tag these resources?) and how we link to them (ie how can we make use of the semantic web to go beyond a closed teacher resource exchange, such as that on the OCC?)
Something to think about anyway.
Mike Clarke
19 September 2007 at 10:10 am
Hi
I couldn’t see the youtube eg because the site is blocked. The flickr link only took me to the front page of the site, not to the TOK bit that I wanted to see!
Lee Davis
19 September 2007 at 11:25 am
Hi Mike,
Thanks for your feedback. The links to YouTube and Flickr at the top of the post are to the sites’ main pages - they’re not supposed to link to anything particular to IB. I blogged on the general educational uses of Flickr here: http://blogs.ibo.org/opls/2007/09/10/teaching-and-learning-with-flickr/
If you would like to view the videos I’ve embedded above, you’re very welcome to use our media lab.
Gioko
21 July 2008 at 11:25 am
Its very interesting to see how media is being embrased in the educational world. One avenue which it offers is collaboration. Through such media we will be able to see examplers of situations, learn from them and improve on them. On the part of the students they are very comfortable with the new technologies. we need to Tap to this interest and hook them up so that they learn other concepts. Underlying all this we need to ask our self what in the media facillitates the conceptual understanding of concepts to enhance the lerning of our students. That is the main focus which unless addresses we shall just be using the technologies instead of integrating them in our teaching, learning and assessment processes.