Student DV

If you're looking for inspiration to create an educational video, tune in to SECC's Student DV.

Student DV (Digital Video) is a unique, award-winning program that showcases digital videos created by Sacramento students and features work entered in the SEVA contest. Since many schools have a multimedia program, Student DV provides teachers with useful instructional materials to help students learn more about video production and see what their peers are creating.

Student DV #85

• Righting the Wrong: Franklin High School
• A Dream in Time: Natomas Charter School
• To Kill a Mockingbird: Center High School
• Save our Schools: Prairie Elementary School
• How to Draw a Really Cool Bird: Prairie Elementary School

> Watch this episode in the Video Gallery

The 21st Century Learning Video Project

Twin Rivers Unified School District and SECC develop videos to help teachers integrate the skills of the future into the classroom today

Imagine not only extracting DNA from a strawberry but collaborating with your 7th grade life science team to analyze, compare and contrast the extraction methods. What if social studies includes an art gallery walk and an exploration of life at home that, literally, uses a camera to focus on your surroundings? Or, as a 2nd grader, reading facial expressions to better understand emotion?

SECC recently partnered with member Twin Rivers Unified School District to create a series of videos to begin the ongoing process of preparing students for the future — a future where skills are not the same as they have been in the past. The district videos provide opportunities for teachers to practice 21st century skills and “to understand those skills and see the relationship to the world outside,” says Steve Scott, Twin Rivers USD Instructional Technology Director. “So this transition to the outside world becomes much more seamless… Ideally, it’s an ongoing continuum of development.”

Working with the Metiri Group, a consulting service that helps learning organizations create ecosystems where 21st century thinking, teaching and learning can flourish, the district developed a set of eight skills that include collaboration, creative thinking, cross-cultural skills, higher order thinking, information/communications technology, information media literacy, self-directed learning and social skills. Each of the resulting 18 videos shows a specific skill used in a real classroom with a teacher and his or her students. When used with professional development presentations, these videos present the skill and its importance to the educator and show how to integrate it in course content.

Even though research that supports purposeful integration of 21st century skills is in its infancy, when business leaders around the world describe what they want in their employees, words such as collaborator, problem solver, self-directed and creativity are most frequently mentioned — all 21st century skills. Authentic learning opportunities tied to the use of technology increases engagement and builds information and communications technology (ITC) skills. “Making the learning authentic means making it connect to [the student’s] outside world,” says Tim Gardes, Library Media Services, “making them see themselves in the learning. Students are more engaged, students are on task, students are proud of their work and they keep asking, ‘When are we doing this again?’”

Educator Kenneth Durham also believes that “doing this again” is the key to success. He says, “As educators we have to give our students opportunities continuously — not just this one project but year long, all the time, have something going where they’re having to use their skills and become lifelong learners.” > Continued: Elk Grove USD Teach 21 videos

Watch the videos back to back: Jan. 27 | 9:00 am | C. 15

> Learn more and link to the videos in SECC’s Video Gallery
> Link to Twin Rivers USD Educational Technology Department to learn more