Week #9 Caught on Tape

This is a very intresting article by Bob Sprankle. He is talking about the revolutions of video and handheld technologies that can capture videos. He believes there are many great reasons to utilize video in educaion, and i agree. I like when he talks about how Kohn asks What are you doing instead of How well they are doing. He said focusing on how well weather than what impedes learning. I agree with this statement. People always tend to ask how well you are doing in school weather than asking questions like what are you doing keys them in to come up with an educational answer about what they are learning. With pocket videos students can videotape themselves answering questions which they can look back on and other studens can also learn from. This seems like an example of student voice in a classroom situation. Video is a great tool that can be used to better engage students in learning and get them excited to learn. Of coarse these hand  held videos can be distractions during certain times, so as the teacher you have to be careful with how much and what times the students can use the tools. A possibiliy would be to have a few as a classroom set. These videos show actual problem solving skils and evidence of learning, refecting the students better undestanding and learnig of what he or she is presenting in the video.