https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYDYzR-ZWRQ
This video show me a clear explanation about B. F. Skinning's Behaviorism Theory and some application based on behaviorism theory to improve teaching.
According to multimedia learning principles, my evaluations are as follows:
1. This video meets very well in coherence principle because all the words, pictures and sounds are relevant, which dose not influence the understanding and distraction of Behaviorism.
2. In this video, the video-maker intendedly highlights the keywords(signaling principle) to help audiences have a better recognition about Behaviorism, and it is conducive to audiences to think based on their previous experience.
3. After introducing the definition of Behaviorism, the video-maker believes the definition is too complicated to let audience comprehend, so the video-maker adds a mixture of graphics and narration like this,
which makes people learn better the meaning of this part. That shows the redundancy principle, which means it doesn't need to add "what does it mean?"(on-screen text) in this video.
4. When the video-maker gives specific examples of Behaviorism, he puts all the cases closely near the pictures. It is pretty beneficial for people to learn. (spatial contiguity principle) Also, the way presenting the corresponding words and pictures (as a whole in blue boxes and the word "application"&picture) simultaneously is conducive to help people concentrate on the contents in this video. (temporal principle)
5. In the application part in this video, the video-maker use segment principle to show the behaviors and reinforcements respectively into two parts. We can hear the words "First" and "Next." That exactly guides the cognitive development of audiences.
6. At the beginning of this video, the video-maker puts a real problem to guide audiences to think the relationship between this issue and theory. And the video-maker refers to the name of and accurate explanations of the concept, which tries to help people learn something at the pre-training part so that people can gradually comprehend Behaviorism better. However, it seems not that suitable for those people never touching this level. I think if adding some real situation as examples at the introduction part, the learning effect will be better.(pre-training principle)
7. Although this resource is a video, it still arranges all the knowledge as layouts of graphics and narrations with highlighting the keywords in on-screen text, which analyzes the Behaviorism clearly and logically.(modality principle)
8. The video-maker combines pictures and words in an appropriate way, and it does not use words alone to teach. (multimedia principle)
9. The video-maker personalizes his video at the aspects of words, pictures, and formats to present the concept of Behaviorism, which will not make audience feel weary.(personalization principle)
10. This video is narrated by a natural human voice, which makes people hear comfortably.( voice principle)
11. This video-maker puts two images of people. One is the speaker- the man in a black T-shirt; Another is the teacher facing some class management problems. This video uses their images to interpret the Behaviorism Theory, which contributes to a better concentration for audiences and makes the video like a conversation between teachers and students.
This video show me a clear explanation about B. F. Skinning's Behaviorism Theory and some application based on behaviorism theory to improve teaching.
According to multimedia learning principles, my evaluations are as follows:
1. This video meets very well in coherence principle because all the words, pictures and sounds are relevant, which dose not influence the understanding and distraction of Behaviorism.
2. In this video, the video-maker intendedly highlights the keywords(signaling principle) to help audiences have a better recognition about Behaviorism, and it is conducive to audiences to think based on their previous experience.
3. After introducing the definition of Behaviorism, the video-maker believes the definition is too complicated to let audience comprehend, so the video-maker adds a mixture of graphics and narration like this,
which makes people learn better the meaning of this part. That shows the redundancy principle, which means it doesn't need to add "what does it mean?"(on-screen text) in this video.
4. When the video-maker gives specific examples of Behaviorism, he puts all the cases closely near the pictures. It is pretty beneficial for people to learn. (spatial contiguity principle) Also, the way presenting the corresponding words and pictures (as a whole in blue boxes and the word "application"&picture) simultaneously is conducive to help people concentrate on the contents in this video. (temporal principle)
5. In the application part in this video, the video-maker use segment principle to show the behaviors and reinforcements respectively into two parts. We can hear the words "First" and "Next." That exactly guides the cognitive development of audiences.
6. At the beginning of this video, the video-maker puts a real problem to guide audiences to think the relationship between this issue and theory. And the video-maker refers to the name of and accurate explanations of the concept, which tries to help people learn something at the pre-training part so that people can gradually comprehend Behaviorism better. However, it seems not that suitable for those people never touching this level. I think if adding some real situation as examples at the introduction part, the learning effect will be better.(pre-training principle)
7. Although this resource is a video, it still arranges all the knowledge as layouts of graphics and narrations with highlighting the keywords in on-screen text, which analyzes the Behaviorism clearly and logically.(modality principle)
8. The video-maker combines pictures and words in an appropriate way, and it does not use words alone to teach. (multimedia principle)
9. The video-maker personalizes his video at the aspects of words, pictures, and formats to present the concept of Behaviorism, which will not make audience feel weary.(personalization principle)
10. This video is narrated by a natural human voice, which makes people hear comfortably.( voice principle)
11. This video-maker puts two images of people. One is the speaker- the man in a black T-shirt; Another is the teacher facing some class management problems. This video uses their images to interpret the Behaviorism Theory, which contributes to a better concentration for audiences and makes the video like a conversation between teachers and students.
Xuedi I like your detailed and comprehensive explanation. Also when you describe these principles, you can use them as you learn, for example, highlighting keywords.
ReplyDeleteHi Stella this is a really good instructional video on learning behaviorism! Your analysis is also very good in accordance with the principles and so I agree with everything that you have said about the video.
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