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.
Your critique of the video missing the systemic impacts of race is spot on; explicitly connecting these concepts to real-world social movements and inequalities makes the learning so much more impactful. My group is also relying on H5P quizzes for our asynchronous module on password security, so I completely relate to your point about how valuable that automated, specific feedback is for keeping students engaged without increasing instructor workload. Using those interactive tools to break down such a dense and important topic is a fantastic design choice!
Great subject to talk about, and it absolutely should be talked about more! I really liked how in the H5P activity, there was more feedback other than “correct” or “incorrect”. I got it right on my first try, but after seeing the detailed feedback I reloaded to page to try again so I could see the feedback for the incorrect options too. I can see how the specific information that related to each incorrect answer would be really helpful for anyone who chose one of those! Maybe an idea could be to also include a timestamp of where in the video they might want to revisit, or a link to further readings based on which wrong answer was selected?
Hi Kevin. I really like the video you have used for this activity, as well as the embeded activity that goes along with it. Videos are really good to use as a hook into a lesson, and I think this video would work well for older students. I really like how you include quizzes as an incentive for learners to pay attention to the video. My mom teaches at a highscool, and she always talks about how students will refuse to do work if marks are not given out, and not pay attention to videos if there is not work correlating to it. Overall, I think you can turn this mini lesson into a great extentive lesson, great work!
-Amelia