Overview of Skafest website using video and H5P

Reflection on using video in teaching and learning

Reflect on why teaching with stories can catch the attention of learners and make it easier for them to recall information embedded in stories.

If a quote is worth a thousand words, Thomas King could answer this question perfectly when he says that “the truth about stories is that’s all we are”.

In Indigenous culture, the First Peoples Principles of Learning and Indigenous ways of teaching, learning knowing and being in general, story is considered one of the most important ways of learning, communicating and understanding the world. Story is imbedded into every part of Indigenous life and culture. It is inextricably connected to language, and inextricably place and people.

What are the pros and cons of using video creation as a teaching tool for language revitalization in one of your practicum classrooms?

Video (and audio) is an excellent tool for language revitalization. It provides ways to hear the sound of language and words, see the way mouths must moves, and video can include visuals and gestures that enhance the auditory learning. Gesture and sign approaches to language learning have shown to be very successful. During my mom’s career as a French teacher, the AIM program was introduced. It used a number of ways of learning to accelerate language aquisition. Similar to this, the SENĆOŦEN immersion teachers at the school where I work have been learning and teaching using gestures.