Week 3 Reflection

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On reflecting on whether I think including H5P tools would potentially be a useful tool, I believe, for possibly middle school. This would be a perfect introduction to technology and other online sources of information. Middle school age groups tend to get more into the social media aspect of the internet, in which youtube is a big part of that makeup. I aim to teach grades younger than middle school. However, I still believe that small amounts of technology, like using those types of videos we made, can be super useful in a younger classroom as images + words are the most beneficial way to introduce this to a smaller age group. Mutli-media Learning theory can help us create more effective instruction videos as it also caters to all learning styles (visual, audio, kinesthetic, read and write). Instructional and or informational videos can help students in the classroom, teachers included, to be more open to the use of technology in the classroom to use as teaching materials. Most people remember more when there are visual connections to the material being taught. For younger students, it will help move along their cognitive development to match images with words, as well as be able to sound them out (similar to when a teacher reads out loud). Overall this class was super helpful to me as I am pretty slow at learning new skills, especially in technology, so to be able to create my own tutorial and edit it makes me believe I can teach it or use the skills I developed today in my future classroom!