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8.Caption should be good used in the video teaching
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I have no idea to write something for the normal blog . however, I noticed an article when I look through the handy book. Now let 's share it together .
A simple change ---switching on captions-can make a big difference when students watch educational videos . An SF state professor has discovered . Robert Keith Collins an assistant professor of American Indian studies test scores and comprehension improved dramatically when captions were used while watching videos .The tool is often utilized for students with learning disabilities, but Collins says his results show captions can be beneficial to all students.
Collins developed the idea while he was a member of a faculty .Learning committee
focus on ways to make the classroom more accessible to all the students .During the first year of a two-year case study , he showed videos with out captions to establish a baseline of student comprehension .once that baseline was established , he turned
Captions on and began to see improvements .Those improvements continued into the second year of the study .
Not only were students talking about how much having the captions helped them as they took notes , their test scores went up
