Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of using different mediums (e.g., print or digital text, video, multimedia) to present a particular topic or idea.

Print is good at conveying a lot of information in a small amount of space, but it's absolutely horrible at holding people's attention (especially when it's written in 8 point font with tiny margins). Videos are great at showing things that are very difficult to describe, but can't convey as much information as reading a textbook. Everything has its pros and cons, and this Common Core Standard asks students to think about why someone would choose to explain something with the medium they did. (We would love to see someone try to explain the sound of a helicopter using just words.)