Integrating Film and Television into Social Studies Instruction. ERIC Digest. - 0 views
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Visual media also address different learning modalities, making material more accessible to visual and aural learners
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It reinforces the passive viewing and unquestioning acceptance of received material that accompanies growing up in a video environment.
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an excellent starting point is John E. O'Connor's IMAGE AS ARTIFACT: THE HISTORICAL ANALYSIS OF FILM AND TELEVISION
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Teachers should be familiar with editing techniques, camera angles, the uses of sound, and other aspects of the presentation.
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Beyond the cultural and social aspects of the film, what influences were at work in shaping the document?
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Thirty years ago this meant teaching students to read the newspaper critically, to identify bias there, and to distinguish between factual reporting and editorializing. Critical viewing skills must be added to this effort.
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While film can serve as an engaging introduction to a subject, students should be aware of the constant shading and biases, why these occur, and what they accomplish.
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An examination of filming and editing, circumstances surrounding production and distribution, and the producer's intentions are essential for studying such material.
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"Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies" at http://h-net2.msu.edu/~filmhis/.
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This is sort of a basic review of how and why we as teachers might use film in the classroom. This is my first post on this issue; I am searching for some more in-depth sites that might have models for lesson plans. Many sites have lesson plans based around a specific film; a site that provides lesson plan templates that are applicable across a wide variety of films would be more applicable/useful. However, the comments made here by Paris provide a good base from which to start thinking about the idea.