With the brief experience I had with H5P, I think that these tools will not be useful for the grade I would like to teach. However, with the amount of online learning increasing in elementary schools every year, I am confident that in the near future that will change. Currently, the only issue I see with why H5P and other interactive learning sites aren’t applicable for elementary school children, is that children that age don’t have enough access to technology where those resources would be applicable. That being said, having interactive-based learning is proven to be incredibly useful in the classroom for knowledge retention. currently, I can only see H5P being used in a class if a teacher is presenting a lesson on a projector and having the class answer the H5P quiz altogether.
Multi-media Learning Theory can help us create more effective instructional videos and tutorials. It’s important that we maximize and not diminish a child’s ability to learn and a multi-media approach to learning is an ideal way to do that. In a classroom setting, there are many distractions that can impede learning, and we don’t want our lessons to do the same. Having text describing an image and then, as a teacher, reading off the screen to your class, leads to a very overwhelming, situation. Dr. Ray Pastore in his video “What is Multimedia Learning? What is Multimedia?”, this also ties into how learners need to be able to control the pace of instruction, for an effective learning environment.
I loved your video Finlay! It wasn’t too long, was easy to follow, and I am now inspired to go play snake. One thing I would have liked to see was more of an introduction to H5P, but your explanation of multi-media learning was great. Good job meeting the rest of the requirements.