Campbell, L. O. (2012). If you give a kid a video camera. Learning and Leading with Technology, 39(5), 30-33. Retrieved from http://www.iste.org/learn/publications/learning-and-leading/February-2012.aspx
This article was my favorite out of the four. This is something that I will definitely use in my elementary classrooms. The article mentioned how a video camera can be used in all subjects, allowing the students to get a visual about the material. For language arts, I think it would be a great idea to use it as a pen pal with students the same age from other states, or even other countries. Students today are more and more familiar with blogging and posting, I feel they would benefit from learning how to make a video, post it, and respond to another video. This is enhancing skills such as listening, public speaking, and becoming familiar with technological forms of learning. I really liked the math scavenger hunt lesson. When I was in high school trigonometry I remember walking outside and measuring every angle I could find with my group. It would have been so much easier to have a video camera, or even a camera to help with the recording. Giving a kid a video camera is a great idea and I think it will help many lessons in the future.
Q: Why would some teachers be opposed to using a video camera for lessons even though the article shows how effective it can be?
Most teachers are in a completely different generation of technology then we are today. We are only advancing more and more through incorporating technology in the classroom, you cannot avoid it. Teachers need to learn more about how our students can use their every day technology. This will make their education journey more fun and they will want to use these new gadgets in their given assignments.
Q: With a lesson such as having the students create a video for a pen pal in another country, what are they learning from using this video camera?
You assume with having the students use a video camera in the classroom it will be more of a fun assignment then an academic one. By doing this particular assignment they will be exposed to multiple learning strategies such as public speaking, working a useful piece of technology that can help them with other future schools projects and becoming familiar with posting and blogging their video. Just because they are not reading a textbook chapter does not mean they are not learning something useful. I posted a video on my prezi of clips of students who were in second grade who were filming a partner about family traditions and other interests. They seemed to have a lot of fun doing it, and they are also learning other multicultural facts of people just like them, and how lifestyles can be different. AWESOME.
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