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Learning activity

Pre-class preparation on a video

Encourage students to listen, interact and discuss an video file prior to class
Pedagogy
Flipped classroom
Learning outcome
Collaboration
Prep time
High (>30 min)
Activity type
Learning Activity
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Why this learning activity?

Learning activities targeting high-order skills like this one can help you activate students more effectively. This learning activity will help you with:
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Identify main concepts

Students will identify and clearly summarize key ideas presented in the video.
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Engage in collaborative dialogue

Students will actively participate in discussions, directly referencing the video content and engaging with peers' ideas.
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Apply insights practically

Students will clearly articulate practical steps derived from video insights to implement in their personal, academic, or professional lives.
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Activity setup

Pre-class preparation on a video

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Activity steps

  1. Watch video and respond: Students will watch the interactive video attentively, answering embedded questions that check comprehension and provoke deeper thinking.
  2. Discuss and Engage: Students will participate in peer discussions by responding to comments, providing additional insights, or posing further questions related to the video content.
  3. Reflect on the material: Students will compose a reflective summary, detailing key insights gained from the video and describing specific, actionable applications to their own academic or creative practices.

Activity goals

This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:
  1. Watch video and respond: Students will watch the interactive video attentively, answering embedded questions that check comprehension and provoke deeper thinking.
  2. Discuss and Engage: Students will participate in peer discussions by responding to comments, providing additional insights, or posing further questions related to the video content.
  3. Reflect on the material: Students will compose a reflective summary, detailing key insights gained from the video and describing specific, actionable applications to their own academic or creative practices.

Learning Activities Used

Interactive Video

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In this activity

This activity helps facilitate a flipped classroom approach to your teaching. When student engage with material prior to class there are several benefits:

  • Prior to class, areas of the topic where students may struggle are outlined allowing in class time to be spent on relevant areas.
  • Encourage students to learn from each other, ask each other questions and seek help from one another.
  • In class time can be spent applying material, and exploring its real-world relevance.
  • You can add a video, where you can thereafter add:
    • Inline multiple choice or open answer questions
    • Inline discussion prompts
    • Opt for students to be able to start discussion threads where they can interact and ask each other questions.
    • Opt for students to be able to ask multiple choice or open answer questions.
  • Anonymity:
    • Students won’t see other individual student answers to questions.
    • Opt in for anonymity on discussion threads.
  • Reflection
    • Encourage students to reflect on their main take aways.
  • Grading: This template is currently a formative assessment, you can opt for it to be a graded assignment if you want to encourage participation further.

Notable settings

Anonymity
Reflection
Grading

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