JAKARTA – Learn online During the pandemic, teachers are required to be more creative in making teaching and learning methods that are effective and not boring.
Atmosphere study online which is much different from studying in a class together, it seems difficult for teachers to manage students who have just started a class already feeling bored.
Noviantik Karolina, a teacher from SD Negeri 6 Klampok, Banjarnegara, Central Java, also feels the challenge of teaching online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Also Read: Learning Online at Home Should Be Made Fun
He even explored several times to find more fun and effective teaching methods for his students.
“More than a year and a half of online teaching and learning has made students feel bored. Therefore, I am trying to find a new, more effective way of teaching for my students,” said Noviantik in a press statement.
Noviantik’s idea to teach through short videos, of course, did not come suddenly. He has done a simple experiment by making a long video for the material “negative and positive integers” to his students. The results were not effective because 10 out of 18 students actually scored below the standard.
Also Read: Tips for Becoming a Smart Parent when Accompanying Children Learning Online
“Some students admitted they didn’t watch the video until the end because they were bored with the long duration. So, they take the exam without understanding the material well,” explained Noviantik.
Not without reason Noviantik chose the method of teaching through short videos. Apparently, the effectiveness of learning through short videos for students has been proven through a study conducted by the University of Wisconsin in 2018.
Students become easier to absorb information and more focused so that the learning and teaching process becomes more interesting.
Noviantik is an active user of the short video platform SnackVideo. From here, he sees learning solutions to be given to students.
He then again tested the material “negative and positive integers” to give to his students. As it turned out, the results were much different. A total of 16 out of 18 students actually got scores that exceeded the standard when they took the evaluation exam.
The two trials that Noviantik did later became a reference for him that in fact short videos were much more effective to use in the online learning and teaching process for his students than long videos.
Apart from being entertaining, short videos also keep students from getting bored and make them more involved in learning.
