We were shown the movies that the other Primary Education students produced and I immediately thought that this was an excellent activity for an upper primary class.
The advantages of using Digital Moviemaking are it gives the children the opportunity to be creative whilst using innovative technology. Children like to experience new things and with taking videos (on phones and cameras) being so popular in their lives, why not use this in the classroom?
Making a digital movie requires many skills: acting skills, technological skills, communication skils, teamswork. I think this will help to build confidence levels and it links Drama with ICT brilliantly.
The only disadvantage I can think of is that the group's might not work well together, leading to some pupils not getting the chance to learn new skills. However, it is important that children experience working in groups regularly as this helps to extend their own thinking (Alexander, R. 2008). To help to ensure that all members of the group are involved, I could give roles for the pupil's to choose from. This should result in all of the group contributing to the task.
I think Digital Movie-making would be enjoyable, very active and would be a good task to use Peer Assessment as the groups can learn from each other .
Alexander, R. (2008) Towards Dialogic Teaching. London: SAGE Publications Limited.
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Good conmments about the group work. Have a wee read about co-operative learning and how children take different roles. This fits nicely into this area.
Great blog,Lauren. You have reflected well on the learning. With regards to using digital movie making with children you would ensure that the groups were well organised and knew exactly what roles they had eg director, performer etc. Collette
Think about how you could organise groups to ensure that all children played an equal part.
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