However throughout the last two module of this course I found audio and audio visual learning very helpful when coming to understand a subject matter so I decided to do some searching for what kind of informative videos were available online.
This research has also been helpful in looking at how an informative video could be used as my Artefact.
Below is a selection of the videos I found most informative, coordinate and interesting.
I love how the video above really simplifies learning through play into its most basic form. It uses pictures and captions as well as paragraphs of writing where more detail is needed.
I also enjoy how, although the target audience for this video is adult, it has a child-like tune playing over the top and is very bold and colourful throughout.
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This next video is much more detailed in it's information. It is more specifically about Play Based Learning and how it is used in the everyday classroom.
Much like the previous video it uses pictures and captions throughout, however more predominant in this one is the use of video footage, both of children in play and interviews with teachers. It also uses a narrative audio to describe and explain as apposed to just using written captions.
I particularly love what one of the teachers at the beginning of the video states;
"We believe in giving the power back to the children in our classroom. We really believe that they aren't just mucking around, they're discovering, they're like little scientists, always figuring things out in the classroom"
This video give more detail into what exactly they believe is learnt through play and at what age these developments happen.
For example, they describe the Developmental Stages of Question Acquisition.
"It is during play that children have rich conversations that develop listening and language skills including the asking and answering of thought provoking questions"
They also state;
"The selection of materials must be thoughtful and offer opportunities for the child to compare, predict, hypothesis, create generalisations, to be challenged but not over whelmed"
It is particularly helpful in this video to have the actual footage of children playing, of course this is something that has huge ethical considerations and is therefore not something I may have had the chance to see if it wasn't for videos like this.
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The last video I have chosen focuses on play and creative arts as therapy, nothing I have yet to fully touch on in my literature review as of yet, however it is a very important part of the research I am doing for this topic.
This video interviews Caroline Essame, a Creative Arts Therapist, and Dr Sue Jennings, Nero Dramatic Play Specialist on the topic of Technology and Development: Creative Arts Therapy and Child Development.
I found this to be one of the most informative ( and interesting!) videos found throughout all my online searching.
"What helps a child mature is human interaction" - Jennings
"Academics might get you into a good university, but I think creativity and play teaches you how to live life" - Essame
In this video Jennings also briefly touches on her theory of Nero-Dramatic Play, something I had looked at quickly within my Module two literature.
They go onto talk about how modern technology is effecting development in children.
This video is just one of many available on Youtube where Jennings and Essame highlight the uses of their field on different aspects of learning, development and life.
Below are a few more I found very informative.
The Arts and Healing
"The theatre drama experience is an integrated one that teaches us, it satisfies our spiritual connection and it also is healing" - Jennings
'We don't just learn in words and from a worksheet. We learn with our bodies, we learn with our hands, we learn with our emotions, we learn with our social interactions. Learning is bigger than being told." - Essame
"The arts are great for encouraging people to have a holistic experience of learning" - Essame
Early and Positive Attachment
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