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Download PDF of scaffold here.
Scaffolding videos is crucial. Many teachers use videos to introduce new material, but without scaffolding, but the dynamics is the same as giving a direct-teaching lesson: the students sit passively listening with little or no interaction. Many times, teachers think that an effective scaffold of a video is by pausing it periodically and testing their students’ comprehension, but this is an assessment and not a scaffold – it tests them on what they may have learnt after watching the material, but it doesn’t help them learn key concepts, or academic language beforewatching so that the viewing is more meaningful and less taxing (meaning that they won’t suffer from cognitive overload).
Even for very young learners, we can scaffold videos. This scaffold shows how they can participate in their own learning through images of the video they´re going to watch. The scaffold is based on Information Wheels in which you show chunks of information in different apertures. However, mini-books require less preparation and so are more teacher-friendly. To use as an example with this scaffold, we’re going multi-cultural to introduce students to the beloved Moomins, the peace-loving and philosophical family of characters, created in Finland in the 1940s by Tove Jansson, and now considered to be a national treasure. You’ll quickly see how you can use it for virtually any video you choose for. your class. I’ve used this scaffold at all levels (Pre-School, Primary, Secondary and University) and the students become engaged immediately. Later, when they begin the targeted unit, they quickly realise how much knowledge they have already assimilated from having participated in the activity. See what you think!
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Mini-Book of Moomin Video in Word
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Interacting with Mini-Book
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