Many people seem to have this weird moral pyramid where reading is "good" and most TV and all video games are a "waste of time". I don't believe this.
Humans interact with media, whether it's the printed page, the camera or the avatar. We just interact with it differently.
Videos are above all sequences of images and sound. The first thing is to understand that sequence. For EFL learners this part can be difficult because the language itself is a barrier.
If you're watching a piece of fiction such as a movie or a TV series, the first task is to understand the plot. As teachers we need to help guide students through the story by asking questions.
Notice, I said guide, not test. Those are two different things entirely!
If you're watching non-fiction, such as a documentary or an information slide-show, then the task is to make sure the students have understood the nformation. Again, questions are only one of the many ways to do this.
Once the students have understood, then it's up to them to analyse it.
As I mentioned on earlier posts, for fiction it's about analysing the motivations of the characters: why did the characters, think, speak or act the way they did? For non-fiction it's about analysing the source of the information itself: is it trustworthy or b.s and how can you tell?
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