A thread about instructional videos: My daughter is watching a *lot* of Brain Pop Jr. & Flocabulary videos during daily independent work time. When she walks away from videos talking about the singing lasagna instead of the intended math concept, I consider the video a failure.

If we learn what we're attending to, then she is most assuredly *not* learning math and science concepts, especially if there is no debrief after watching the videos. She watches the video and moves on to the next task in her list.

I appreciate the resource shared by @saravdwerf which is about teaching students *how* to learn from a video before we ever expect them to learn from a video. It is a false assumption to think watching = learning.

I also appreciate well-designed visuals/videos like the ones @BerkeleyEverett creates that are beautiful to watch and designed without fluff which increases the chances dramatically that you're going to attend to the math concept shown, not a singing pasta dish.

I get that videos are a way to offer content to students at home when live time with the teacher is limited, but as with everything, there are well-designed and less-well designed resources as there are effective ways to use them and ineffective. Be intentional in your choices.