For my team’s Learning Design Project, we are looking to educate young kids from Kindergarten to Grade 3 on the topics of Well-being and Mindfulness. Our team believes in the importance of helping children build a solid foundation for their futures and believe that the importance of our topic should be emphasized in a classroom setting. We will be exploring a variety of areas such as Physical Health, Nutrition and Breathing Strategies that students can implement in their daily lives.
Given our audience’s age range, we believe it is important to create an interactive resource that requires their active participation. To foster engagement, we can provide resources with interactive components and student engagement such as short videos, picture diagrams, in-person kid-friendly presentations etc.
Doing a YouTube search on my topic led to the following YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJBM1snFC9E encouraging young children to move their bodies with the Minions from the Despicable Me franchise.
- What kind of interaction would the video require from your students? Does it force them to respond in some way (inherent)?
This video would require students to follow along by moving their bodies and answering some of the fun questions along the way!
2. How would students get feedback on the activity that you set? What medium or technology would they and/or you use for getting and giving feedback on their activity?
Students could get feedback on this activity from the instructor. If the instructor notices a student disengaging, an instructor could help a student redirect their attention to the video and check in to make sure they are okay. Upon completion of the activity, instructors could do a quick check-in with student (thumbs up/down and oral debrief) to see how students are doing
3. How much work for you would that activity cause? Would the work be both manageable and worthwhile? Could the activity be scaled for larger numbers of students?
This activity would not cause much work on the instructors’ end to be implemented and would be quite manageable and worthwhile, given its interactive nature for large groups of students
4. How could the video have been designed to generate more or better activity from viewers or students?
This video could have been designed to generate more or better activity by extending its duration from a couple minutes to a longer period of time and implementing breaks to encourage students to practice their breathing strategies and grab some water.
Hi Fawzan!
I appreciate how you made your activity geared toward younger students since that is your target audience. I also liked how the activity is designed in a way that would encourage participation from younger kids. Do you think other videos such as Just Dance Kids might also work for this kind of check in or is there a reason you chose this specific video for an activity?
Thanks for sharing the video and activity to inspire younger kids to be more active! I completely agree that the video could have been improved to generate better activities. It wasn’t entirely clear how to get involved with it. I also think it would be more enjoyable to do this activity in virtual reality so that students could catch a banana or respond to the trivia question in a more immersive way.