Using video embeds and H5P interactive learning tools to enhance education about race, racialization, and anti-racism

What activity could you suggest that they do after they have watched the video? What type of knowledge or skill would that activity help develop? What medium or technology would students use to do the activity?

Even though this video is only 3 minutes long, it is very dense and covers many topics quickly. To encourage learners to internalize the information in the video, I would include a few informal quiz questions to reinforce the most crucial points. This format usually helps me keep the most important information in the front of my mind, especially after very long or dense educational materials. H5P interactive tools allow me to insert a variety of formats for these quizzes, including multiple-choice questions, true-or-false questions, term-definition matching questions, and even some fun ones like crosswords. I have included an example of a quiz question I plan to use in the project here:

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?

H5P interactive quiz elements allow for feedback upon answering questions with set answers. I’ve experimented with having specific feedback depending on which answer they selected, explaining why it was correct or incorrect.

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?

The goal of these knowledge check quizzes is not to grade the learner’s understanding, but to encourage them to remain engaged and invested in the content of the video. The questions will not be difficult or require any research outside of the material presented to them. This format encourages individual asynchronous learning, which reduces the need for equitably accessible teaching that is required for in-person teaching. This is a topic that should be taught face-to-face to accommodate group discussions and allow for personal life experiences to inform the learning of others, but this Learning Design is primarily concerned with how this knowledge can be made as accessible as possible.

How could the video have been designed to generate more or better activity from viewers or students?

This particular video is not my favourite resource for debunking race, because it spends a while explaining the fluid nature of racial categories, and not enough time cataloguing why race was invented. It also does not emphasize how central race is in perpetuating inequalities in employment, medical care, media representation, and politics. If these elements were included, it would align more conclusively with our overarching Learning Design topic. Even if the video was trimmed down to remove the information I mentioned was less crucial, it could be supplemented with built-in summary quiz questions that reduce the need for H5P interactive elements.