Building Video Literacy: Sound

This activity, created by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explores how sound is used to create meaning.

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Building Video Literacy: Movement

Explore the different ways movement can occur within a shot in this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology.

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Building Video Literacy: Response

In this activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology, explore how each shot of a video can evoke a different response in the viewer.

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Building Video Literacy: Purpose

This activity developed by EDC's Center for Children and Technology explores what a shot is designed to accomplish to create the overall meaning of a film.

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About Inspiring Middle School Literacy

This professional development video from WGBH shows how teachers work with their students, using the self-paced lessons from the Inspiring Middle School Literacy collection, to improve content knowledge and literacy skills.

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Active Teaching and Learning

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to see how strategies such as hands-on activities or participation in group work increase student understanding and confidence.

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Assessing Teaching and Learning

Watch how one teacher conducts formative assessment as part of her statistics class, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Becoming Green Energy Experts

See how Lansing, Michigan inner-city youth become community science experts in energy sustainability and environmental health topics in this student-centric after-school program.

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Bioethics Classroom Debate

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Cherilee Lewis leads a classroom discussion on bioethics.

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Bridging Culture, Community and Science

See how a place-based high school curriculum project promotes STEM learning through local ethnography and conservation projects. This video segment showcases one of 11 CREST projects taking place in rural, coastal Maine communities.

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Challenges of Teaching Biotechnology

In this video interview, high school teacher Diane Provenzano talks about the challenges of teaching biotechnology.

Cheese-Making Lab Activity

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a biotechnology lab.

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Cheese-Making Lab Results

In this classroom-practice video, high school teacher Diane Provenzano leads her class through a discussion of the results of a biotechnology lab.

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Creating a Community of Learners

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results to see how getting to know your students and establishing a positive classroom environment can greatly increase student success.

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Engaging Students in Lecture and Lab

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results in which students move from lecture to lab teams and use algebraic functions to program robots.

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Field Biology

This video segment from the teacher video series Learning That Works uses a case study to highlight the effectiveness of a project-based, real-world approach to teaching science.

Gaining Catfish Aquaculture Skills

See how Mississippi high school students confront the uncertainty and untidiness of science and develop problem-solving strategies in the context of local catfish farming.

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Girls Explore IT Careers

See how BuildIT, an afterschool program in Alameda County, CA, addresses the gender gap in advanced technology careers - promoting middle school girls' fluency in information technologies (IT), interest in math, and IT career awareness.

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Integrating Disciplines in Project-Based Learning

Watch instructors from different disciplines create an integrated project that links concepts from their courses, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Intervening to Prevent a Dropout

This video excerpt from FRONTLINE: "Middle School Moment" proposes that the make-or-break moment for high school dropouts may actually occur in middle school, and presents how one middle school intervenes to prevent dropouts.

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Lure of the Labyrinth

This video adapted from Maryland Public Television introduces Lure of the Labyrinth, a digital game that helps students develop math skills.

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MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies in Action

In this video from the MARTHA SPEAKS mini-tutorial on vocabulary, teachers Weddy Youn and Joseph Cooke describe their success in using the cross-age literacy program, MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies.

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MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Up Close

In this video from WFSU, staff and students describe how the MARTHA SPEAKS Reading Buddies Program works and discuss the benefits of pairing younger and older students.

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Mass vs.Weight at Liberty High School

In this professional development video,Liberty High School Physics teacher Tim Lamb addresses his students’ understanding of mass vs. weight.

MIT Augmented Reality Tool

This video from MIT's Scheller Teacher Education Program explains how their augmented reality authoring tool works and how it can be used for education.

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Moving Beyond the Classroom

Watch this professional development video from Getting Results, to discover how industry and community connections provide students with firsthand experience in how to apply their learning.

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PBCL in an Architecture Design Class

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, see how students in an architectural design class use PBCL to refine their designs for a wellness center.

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PBCL in a Web Design Class

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, see how one instructor works with the business community and then with students in his Web design class.

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PBCL in the Field: Instructor Insights

In this video from Making Learning Real, community college teachers reflect on the Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) methodology.

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PBCL in the Field: Student Insights

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, students at two community colleges reflect on the outcomes of PBCL.

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PBCL in an HTML Class

Watch students present solutions to an organization's business problem, in this video on the Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) approach from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL in an Information Technology Class

Watch an IT class develop a networking plan for a retail business, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Preparing Students for Today

This video excerpted from Making Learning Real introduces Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL), a methodology that puts a real-world industry problem at the center of course curriculum.

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PBCL Stage 1: Course/Business Matching

Watch how a Web design instructor identifies a local businessperson to participate in a class project, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 2: Framing a Situation for the Classroom

See how instructors and their business partners develop real-world problems for classes, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 3: The Situation

Watch students prepare networking solutions for a local business, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 4: Problem Analysis

Watch an architectural design class identify research questions and gain insights from an industry expert, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 5: Field Insights

Watch an Information Technology class gain first-hand information about real business problems through an on-site visit, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 6: Resource Development

Watch students in a Web design class work with their business partner, instructor, and classmates as they develop a Web site for their business partner, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 7: Test Points

See an architecture class revise their plans after receiving feedback from a client, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 8: Evidence of Learning

Watch student teams present Web site solutions to their client, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 9: Feedback & Evaluation

Watch an HTML instructor discuss how she evaluates students’ work, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL Stage 9: Feedback & Evaluation - Guest Expert

Watch a guest Web design instructor give feedback on student presentations to a client, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Teamwork

Watch IT students and their instructor discuss the value of teamwork, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Thinking About Evaluation

Watch instructors and a learning scientist discuss ways to evaluate student work, in this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real.

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PBCL: Why It Works

In this video on Problem-Based Case Learning (PBCL) from Making Learning Real, watch the developers of PBCL talk about the fundamentals behind the methodology.

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Planning for Outcomes

Watch a group of teachers plan their courses in order to reinforce program goals and prepare students for real-life job experiences, in this professional development video from Getting Results.

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Publishing Genome Research

Watch how NJ high school students apply basic principles of molecular biology to solve real research problems, and publish their own genome research at GenBank — the international genomic sequence database.

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Radioactivity iLab

This video from Northwestern University Office of STEM Education Partnerships tours its interactive Radioactivity iLab, in which students are able to perform experiments on remote laboratory equipment.

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Standard Lab Operating Procedures

The students in this classroom video model good laboratory practice.

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