2 Examples

Examples

1. When I was taking Spanish, my junior year of high school, my teacher showed me Finding Nemo in Spanish.  At first I was thinking to myself I can not understand a thing they are saying, but then I started to notice I knew some words they were saying. The more and more I payed attention, I realized that I could understand what they were saying I just had to focus.  This was a great an interesting way for me to hear Spanish being spoke in "real life".
2. Every time that I teacher shows me something on a film, I always remember it.  No matter how boring or useless the information is, for some reason it always stays in my head, at least for the test anyways. I never know how much I am going to have to study the information if the teacher presents it in a different way.

2 Questions

Questions

1. What is the best way that teacher can use film in their classrooms and should they be able to show several film without asking permission to? What are some examples of the best way teachers can show film while making the students think critically about the information being presented to them?
2. Can showing too much film in a classroom be considered a bad thing?

4 Quotes

Quotes

1. "Kids love movies! This fact is evident when you tell them you’re about to show a clip of a movie, and the noise level in the classroom drops immediately.”- Obviously this is the first sentence of the article. As soon as I began reading this article, I instantly choose to use this as my quote because it is so true.  Not only do kids love movies/videos but college students and even grown adults love movies.  In my opinion if you ask everyone would they rather read an article or watch a movie and learn the same information out of both, most everyone would choose to watch the movie.  I think it is great when teacher use clips in the classroom because this help their students learn while also keeping their interest.
2. "'Being literate in contemporary society means being active critical and creative users not only of print and spoken language but also of the visual language of film and television.' This emphasis upon film language is increasingly evident in state standards."-  It is impossible to argue that "being active critical and creative users" in print and spoken language is not important; it obviously is very important.  Something that I never really thought of, and this quotes says it, is that it is also very important to be "active critical and creative users" of visual language as well.  As the quote says, this can be of a film or even television.  This is great for kids because all they want to do is watch television, and it is important that they are.  I also did not realize that film language was in state standards until I read this.
3. "A less controversial but equally engaging movie from 2005 was The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. Based on the children’s book by C.S. Lewis, the story has the universal appeal of other fantasies (Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, The Matrix) that include the struggle between good and evil, and it provides an excellent opportunity to explore the archetypes, rites of passage, genre conventions, and themes and motifs described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero With a Thousand Faces." - The part of this quote that I mainly want to focus on is the part that these types of movies teach the struggle between good and evil.  This lesson is undoubtedly very important for elementary age and even middle grades age students to learn.  Some students will not ever be taught the difference between good and evil in words from their parents, so for this reason it is very important for these types of movies to teach these lessons.
4.  "The growth of DVD technology, SmartBoards, LCD projectors, Smart Rooms, and other technology now permit large-screen, clear freeze frame images that greatly enhance the opportunity teachers have to foster visual discrimination skills."- There is not much to say about this because it is self explanatory, but the article does a good job of giving an example.  A teacher only has to show about 2-5 minutes of a film and ask the children question before they view it and let the children answer it after they have watched the film.