I think that movies can be especially helpful in the classroom to help students learn and become more engaged in the topics! Movies can be very helpful, especially in science classrooms, where we sometimes talk about tiny microscopic things, and seeing pictures of them help students to understand the material much more! Of course movies shouldn't take the place of hands on interactions and experimenting, but they can be used to fill in missing knowlege, or to get students interested in Biology in general.
Knowing how to make movies is important for outside the classroom as well. There are so many fun ways that experiences can be shared through movies. Wether its through actual video recording of an experience you had or just pictures to music, movies are a fun way to share you life with people1
I lived out in Hawaii for a year and at one point I made a movie of mine and my friends adventures so that people at home could watch it and see all the fun things we were doing! It was fun to make, and it was fun to hear about peoples reactions to it! :)
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I definitely agree with you that movies can be especially helpful in the sciences whenever hands-on experimentation isn't possible. Science textbooks can be so dry and often times really abstract or technical, where a good video can really captivate an audience and bring them closer to a subject than text alone could ever do.
ReplyDeleteCells are hard to see- movies make it so much easier. It's hard to learn to juggle from a piece of paper, a video could probably be helpful. I hope we all have access to that kind of knowledge. Enculturate those youth. Stewardship! ... Oh, remember when I saw you in the Tec Lab?
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