Video in education

Video has the potential to be a wonderful tool in education. It will no longer be what students look forward to for a break from being lectured at but as a way to be creative while being assessed. Creativity is sometimes lost in the classroom these days, teachers are to often concerned with meeting learning standards and having tangible data to prove they are being met. Students can still learn course material and display it in a different fashion than just an A on a test. Students should be allowed to be creative with their assessment, movies and podcasts should be encouraged as a way to display what you have learned during a unit, in place of tests. This allows students creative juices to flow and create materials that the teacher may reuse down the road. I know that while I wasin school I felt as if my creativity was being stiffled, i turned to music on my own to get out what I needed too, but their was never any way for me to be creative inside the schools walls. I can wait to get into the classroom and encourge the creative process, not hinder it.