My first thoughts before I visited the website were, What is Moving Image Education? I instantly thought about my own experience in the classroom with regards to MIE. In 2SE1 I was lucky to experience a lesson being taught which was about the children watching a short film and then analysing it. I also had an opportunity to teach a lesson similar to this. I found the children were extremely motivated by this, they enjoyed watching the film and as a result were eager to collaborate to answer questions specific to the film. For example I had a set of Q cards with different titles such as Music and this Q card would have a list of questions asking the children to analyse the music in the film and how it contributed to the film. I have never seen this done before but I thought it was quite unique and enjoyable to teach.
"Moving Image Education is about helping young people to question, analyse, explore and understand the meaning of what they’re watching and hearing." Creative Scotland (2009).
From my own experience at both Primary and High School, children are expected to read a lot and analyse what they read, although I strongly agree with this I think occasionally using these higher order thinking skills on a different media would be exciting for the children and very beneficial. This also gives the children who may be at a lower reading ability the chance to develop their higher order thinking skills by analysing and evaluating a moving image.
Curriculum for Excellence (CFE) (2009) states, “The purpose of the curriculum is encapsulated in the four
capacities - to enable each child or young person to be a successful learner, a
confident individual, a responsible citizen and an effective contributor.”
In order to be an effective contributor or successful learner children must be
encouraged to think for them self and to be confident in their decision making.
Solomon, Schrum (2007) “teachers encourage students to think
about what they already know about a topic, search for new information, and
collaborate with others to solve realistic problems and derive new
understanding” (p38).
This website also talks about talking to the children about
fact and fiction. I think this is important because many children may watch a
film and believe it, without being encouraged to question it. Also many films
are not accurate or historically correct.
Reference
Scottish Government (2009) The purpose of the curriculum
Available http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/understandingthecurriculum/whatiscurriculumforexcellence/thepurposeofthecurriculum/index.asp
[accessed 24.01.12]
Available http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/understandingthecurriculum/whatiscurriculumforexcellence/thepurposeofthecurriculum/index.asp
[accessed 24.01.12]
Solomon, Schrum. (2007) Web 2.0 new tools, new schools. Eugene:
International Society for Technology in Education
Link to Website: http://www.movingimageeducation.org/
Link to Website: http://www.movingimageeducation.org/
I enjoyed reading your blog and seeing how M.I.E could be used practically in the classroom as I have no expereince of this myself. The point you raised about higher order thinking skills is also one I had not considered but I can now see has great importance in Moving Image Eduction.
ReplyDeleteIt was interesting to read your previous first hand experience of using MIE with children. As you say, the potential to enable children to use higher order thinking skills is beneficial.
ReplyDeleteWhat you want to think about is selecting a CfE principle/s and linking what you write to these.
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