People can learn a lot by looking closely. The Web offers a wealth of videos - anything you can imagine and heaps you never would.
But video sharing sites bombard us with other videos to waste time with, comments to scoff at, channels to join, people to envy, interests to pursue, things not appropriate for school students... Meanwhile, there's a lot to be learned from looking closely and carefully.
All you have to do is copy the "embed" code at any of these links below (+ many others). The embed code is often seen in a text area near the "share" options and noted with icons like this:
All you have to do is copy the embed code - don't even look at it - it's too scary.
Paste the code in the text area above, then click the "Let's Learn 2 Look" button. A new window will open, featuring the video you chose embedded in the page itself. Better still... you can choose from nine different Looking Prompts or "Write Your Own." Go on and look and learn and learn and look some more.
For more information on "Learning to Look",
please read the post by Tom March - Learning 2 Look.
Addtional valuable resources are: Making Thinking Visible, by David Perkins
and the The Thinking Routines Web site at Project Zero
- Harvard Graduate School of Education
By Tom March
http://ozline.com/electraguide/ Copyright © 1995 Tom March -- All Rights Reserved Last revised January, 2015 |