Educational Videoconferencing to Meet Common Core Standards

Educational Videoconferencing to Meet Common Core Standards

Educational Videoconferencing to Meet Common Core Standards
Educational videoconferencing (also called Distance Learning) utilizes a set of interactive
telecommunication technologies which allow two or more locations to interact via two-way video
and audio transmission simultaneously. When chosen to specifically support learning objectives,
such authentic, real time interviewing, examining, and collaborating affects engagement,
motivation, and achievement.
Point to Point videoconferences connect only two sites; whereas, Multi-Point conferences
connect more than two sites. The sites are usually connected by MOREnet, a Missouri based
EdPlus New Links partner, via its video bridge.
The range of technologies that can be utilized run from dedicated systems available from Polycom
and/or Cisco/Tandberg to Skype and FaceTime. Additional technology needed for a quality
connection include high speed Internet, video display capability, and a web camera.
A Range of Applications
Educational Videoconferencing:
•  Provides access and opportunity to
examine authentic, meaningful, relevant,
current resources
•  Offers first hand, real time, face to face
communication with experts
•  Facilitates collaboration with peers,
mentors, and/or experts in problemsolving and consideration of current
issues.
•  Models utilization of technologically
relevant curriculum delivery method.
•  Provides access to, and, thus instructional
enrichment, acceleration, and/or
remediation, to a range of academic course
opportunities beyond on-site course
offerings.
•  Facilitates home bound instruction
•  Facilitates participation in global
experiences and issue discussions
•  Facilitates virtual travel to sites, events,
and geographic locations
•  Facilitates staff participation in off-site
staff development, professional
conferences, and collaboration.
A Range of Opportunities
1.  Content Programs – Content Providers
from museums, foundations, agencies,
businesses, etc. offer prepared topical
programs designed to meet curricular needs.
Such programs are generally fee based.
Quality searchable collection available at:
Center for Interactive Learning and
Collaboration www.cilc.org
Content Provider List compiled by
Polycom
www.vccontentproviders.org/
2.  Collaboration Marketplaces –Teachers
wanting to partner with colleagues to
explore topics, discuss issues, share
ideas, develop projects, etc. post ideas
and respond to inquiry. Quality
searchable collections available at:
Skype in the Classroom:
education.skype.com/
Collaborations Around the Planet:
projects.twice.cc/
3.  Personal Research-Often, educator
requests for connections require a
narrowly specific inquiry to an author,
expert, or site manager.
Common Core instruction is strongly supported by the use of
educational videoconferencing.
From the Missouri Core
Achievement Standards:
Students who are college
and career ready in
mathematical practice:
•  Make sense of problems
and persevere in solving
them.
•  Reason abstractly and
quantitatively.
•  Construct viable
arguments and critique
reasoning of others.
•  Model with mathematics.
•  Use appropriate tools
strategically.
•  Attend to precision.
•  Look for and make use of
structure.
•  Look for and express
regularity in repeated
reasoning.
Students who participate in
educational videoconferencing
•  Develop skill in collection of
range of quality, relevant
evidence.
•  Gain understanding from a
range of experts and resources
•  Develop global and cultural
awareness and understanding
•  Develop collaboration skills
•  Develop facility in applying
knowledge of varying
demands of audience and
purpose.
•  Improve attitude of inquiry
and questioning skills
•  Improve active listening skills
•  Experience increased
engagement and motivation
•  Improve social etiquette
awareness and skills
From the Missouri Core
Achievement Standards:
Students who are college
and career ready in
reading, writing, speaking,
listening, and language:
•  Demonstrate independence
•  Build strong content
knowledge
•  Respond to varying
demands of audience, task,
purpose, and discipline
•  Comprehend, as well as
critique
•  Value evidence
•  Use technology and digital
media strategically and
capably
•  Come to understand other
perspectives and cultures
Contact Education Plus for support in:
•  Educating staff in value of educational videoconferencing
•  Providing staff development in effective and efficient use of educational
videoconferencing
•  Locating videoconferencing content and collaboration that serves curriculum
•  Determining videoconferencing equipment needs
•  Facilitating test and actual videoconferencing connections
•  Educating teachers on quality class preparation for connections
•  Preparing students in basic videoconferencing procedures and etiquette
•  Answering whatever additional questions you might have in implementing
the use of educational videoconferencing to support learning in schools.
Ruth Block
[email protected]
Diane Tinucci
[email protected]
EducationPlus
1460 Craig Road
St. Louis, MO 63146