If you’ve been around the educational scene for any length of time you would have heard these statistics:
People remember –
- 10% of what they read
- 20% of what they hear
- 30% of what they see
- 50% of what they read, hear and see
Considering that each person has a preference for taking in information, wouldn’t using description and voice with video be an optimal way to learn to read… and complete assignments?
I call my car my rolling university. One of the things I enjoy is listening to my audio books and other learning programs while I drive.
When I’m home, I usually get the video replays of webinars or other learning programs in which I participate.
As I listened and watched this video, I realized that I like the video replays because they allow me to watch the images and visuals, listen to the presenter and read the bulleted descriptions… at my own pace.
That got me to thinking… if as an adult learner, my preference is tri-modal, shouldn’t that be a frequently used method of teaching our children?
Won’t they find reading and learning more intriguing?
The young man in the video does.
I actually love captioning and description. I watch most of my TV shows with captioning on, because I like listening and reading, just in case I don’t quite understand what’s being said. Thanks for posting! 🙂
Fantastic, Hillary! Now let’s advocate for our children to enjoy the same benefits for comprehension of the work required in schools.
Excellent! This would certainly help with the old “follow along” as someone else reads. The visual and the captions make perfect sense as the next wave of technology for books. Of course, it will also be beneficial for lectures and other presentations, but as an English teacher, I immediately think about literature.
Thank you for the post and the information.
You are so welcome. Thank you for being willing to see differently. That’s vision. You certainly have it.
Let’s see who adopts this new way of reading and runs with it.
Hey Flo
You are the perfect example of how to write posts that DRAW in the viewer.
Personally, I enjoy reading and hearing over ‘seeing’. I like visualizing what I read in my mind’s eye, but I am not a huge fan of ‘videos’ per se. That said, no one can discount the efficacy of visual communication or tri-modal learning.
Thanks darling
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Thanks for sharing.
You just validated the fact that we each have our learning preferences, when it comes to the method by which we take in information.