Connecting to the Future
Streaming video in the 21st Century
The possibilities made available by streaming video accomplish many of the goals of the 21st Century Skills Partnership. Students gain a sense of civil responsibility; one in which the different cultures and countries are valued and their contributions are known. Students gain a sense of awareness of political atmosphere and goings on. Streaming video makes this possible by the plethora of newscast video streaming on the internet as well as amateur commentary and streaming. Reportings of new policies, new taxes, attitudes and opinions are readily available and their presence is known by adolescents either from personal interest or exposure in the schools. Students also learn that video streaming is a tool that even they can use to provide information or entertainment. There is a recent rush of people that are using their creativity to create videos (educational or entertaining) and the encouragement and enticement for students to do this is there. Students are learning that it is their responsibility as an educated person to share their knowledge. Video streaming provides a great opportunity for this.
Another prividege video streaming grants classrooms across the country is the free access to information that is generally exclusive. Teachers are able to bring professionals and academics into their clasroom to discuss higher learning in their subjects. Students across the country have the same availability of access to these speeches and demonstrations. As long as they have the internet and access to a computer, famous philosophers, scientists and engineers can speak to your student.
This brings about another advantage of video streaming in the classrooms. These videos provide a picture of someone who has worked hard in math and science and become a successful astronaut for NASA or what have you. Students are able to see the application of education in action...this will encourage morale and ambition. I think students have a particularly hard time picturing what they can do with what they are learning in school. With live streaming video you can show adults who are performing tasks that require the skills teachers are trying to teach. Students will see more possibilities for their professional life and hopefully give them the drive toward forming and achieving goals that will get them to the same places.
Students are also provided witha global view in the classroom using video streaming. Teachers can collaborate with classrooms across the country or in another country. If you are a social studies teacher, the liklihood that your students will be able to visit the countries you teach about is very small. With streaming video you can hear the language spoken, see what the people look and dress like, view the landscapes and get a much richer experience with cultural diversity. Collaborating with clasrooms in other countries students will get a good idea of how diversity comes into play in a school setting, with competition, work ethic, grade standards and expectations, and etc. Again, this is something I think it is impossible to imagine...especially for students who have no experience on which to base their predictions or visions of what life in another country is like. Video streaming can bring them directly into contact with an image of actual students learning perhaps the same thing they are learning.
The benefits of vieo streaming are heavily woven in with the goals for the 21st Century skills partnership. I believe the three most important foals that video streaming satisfies (and ones that encompass other goals) are the availability of access to information of all kinds, demonstrations, lectures, etc that used to be privy to the very prestigious and accomplished schools; the access to views of people in a professional and academic role in the workforce and the image of applied education; the heightening of awareness of diversity and also collaboration in a global context; and the development of responsibility in civil issues to be informed and aware citizens and also to be contributing citizens. Wtih the knowledge that this generation of students are visual mdeia learners, it is difficult to argue that streaming video has not earned its place as a valuable member of the classroom.
Another prividege video streaming grants classrooms across the country is the free access to information that is generally exclusive. Teachers are able to bring professionals and academics into their clasroom to discuss higher learning in their subjects. Students across the country have the same availability of access to these speeches and demonstrations. As long as they have the internet and access to a computer, famous philosophers, scientists and engineers can speak to your student.
This brings about another advantage of video streaming in the classrooms. These videos provide a picture of someone who has worked hard in math and science and become a successful astronaut for NASA or what have you. Students are able to see the application of education in action...this will encourage morale and ambition. I think students have a particularly hard time picturing what they can do with what they are learning in school. With live streaming video you can show adults who are performing tasks that require the skills teachers are trying to teach. Students will see more possibilities for their professional life and hopefully give them the drive toward forming and achieving goals that will get them to the same places.
Students are also provided witha global view in the classroom using video streaming. Teachers can collaborate with classrooms across the country or in another country. If you are a social studies teacher, the liklihood that your students will be able to visit the countries you teach about is very small. With streaming video you can hear the language spoken, see what the people look and dress like, view the landscapes and get a much richer experience with cultural diversity. Collaborating with clasrooms in other countries students will get a good idea of how diversity comes into play in a school setting, with competition, work ethic, grade standards and expectations, and etc. Again, this is something I think it is impossible to imagine...especially for students who have no experience on which to base their predictions or visions of what life in another country is like. Video streaming can bring them directly into contact with an image of actual students learning perhaps the same thing they are learning.
The benefits of vieo streaming are heavily woven in with the goals for the 21st Century skills partnership. I believe the three most important foals that video streaming satisfies (and ones that encompass other goals) are the availability of access to information of all kinds, demonstrations, lectures, etc that used to be privy to the very prestigious and accomplished schools; the access to views of people in a professional and academic role in the workforce and the image of applied education; the heightening of awareness of diversity and also collaboration in a global context; and the development of responsibility in civil issues to be informed and aware citizens and also to be contributing citizens. Wtih the knowledge that this generation of students are visual mdeia learners, it is difficult to argue that streaming video has not earned its place as a valuable member of the classroom.
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