Video: Julius Caesar Biography

Video is an incredibly useful ICT tool for education, providing a visual representation and demonstration of the focus material. This appeals to multiple intelligences, especially visual learners, whilst also catering for other learning styles in a less direct manner. For example musical learners may find the audio associated with the images within the video easier to comprehend, or similarly linguistic learners may find hearing the subject matter from a narrator whilst associated with imagery a better way of constructing knowledge then merely listening to a teacher in a classroom. This ICT tool does, in essence, bring the material to life and can spark the imaginations of students; facilitating an engagement and resulting in learning. Video is also a useful tool for prompting collaboration, students could even make their own videos as a group and post them on the internet; this would not only provide a recorded visual demonstration of subject material but the learning is achieved through an interactive, collaborative process. Video can also be used as a catalyst for social constructivism through discussion. Because students may interpret the information provided in the video in association with imagery differently, it will provoke differences of opinion and a variety of personal insights in the students. These can be shared in an open discussion with students listening, participating and engaging on a new level. Through this social interaction students will construct their knowledge i.e. social constructivism.