|
Benefits
of teaching with film and television
- Captures and Engages Learners
- Film and television very popular with
students
- Fits with contemporary, visual,
orientation, of today’s young learners
- Externalizes issues to the characters on
the screen—more comfortable talking about the characters than
themselves
- Dramatize and Frame Issues, Integrating
Personal Experience with That of Others
- Puts “concepts” into
“contexts”—we see behaviors play out in settings
- Presents learners with realities that:
- May be different than the
learners—thus offering a different perspective
- May confirm learners’ experiences,
values and behaviors
- Offers behaviors to learn from observing
- Generates Discussion
- Provides opportunities to engage in
discussion of how characters handled situations
- Provides opportunities to compare two or
more characters
- Within same film
- Across films/clips
- Character and learner comparisons
- Stimulate Cognitive Processes and Critical
Thinking
- Engages learners spatial and rational
parts of brain
- Offers an alternative to didactic style
of presentation
- Offers scenarios for analysis,
application, and problem solving
- Demonstrate Skills
- Potential for use in counseling, parenting
skills, communication skills based educational/training
- Share Information
- Facilitates the dissemination of key
information to others when perceived as useful, reliable and truthful
- Gain Media Literacy Skills
- Potential to gain skills as a critical
reviewer of:
- Direct and Indirect Messages
- Potential benefits
- Potential harm
- Relationship with Characters
- Television shows and some films allow for the development of the
characters
- Provides a context in which a particular
clip/segment occurs
- Historical Context of Film and Television
- Film or television clip itself exists
within a historical context that can be juxtaposed against current
places, times and events.
- Extended Classroom
- Film or television clips may be utilized
(if available) outside of the classroom setting by:
- Continued reflection and learning
- Activities oriented instruction
|