Learning How to Look & Listen

Learning How to Look & Listen

Building capacity for video-based social & educational research

Conference participants seated at laptops, each conducting an individual analysis of the same two-minute classroom video.
Participants conducting individual analysis of the same two-minute video of classroom interaction.

This website brings together resources from a conference supported by the Spencer Foundation at Arizona State University where an interdisciplinary group of older and younger scholars gathered to document and illustrate the basic patterns of visual and auditory attention that are employed by researchers who use video to study social interaction. These scholars conducted individual analysis of a 2-minute video of classroom interaction showing the teaching of a key idea in the physics of matter—that matter occupies space—in a bilingual kindergarten–first grade classroom.

Website Organization

19 recordings

Individual Viewing Sessions

Each participant thinks out loud while watching the same two-minute clip, showing their own approach to video analysis.

 1 recording

Group Viewing Session

All participants view and discuss the same clip together, in a collaborative interaction analysis.

 14 recordings

Presentations

Scholars describe how video-based analysis has shaped their past and current research.

 3 themes

Future Directions

Key issues, needs and next steps for video analysis in education and the social sciences.

Conference documents

In the group viewing session, conference organizer Frederick Erickson introduces the purposes and goals of this work.