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Starting at the Start: Unlocking the K-5 Moviemaking Mind

Starting at the Start: Unlocking the K-5 Moviemaking Mind . Michael Schoonmaker. Definitions and Assumptions. Where am I coming from ? A production-centered academic

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Starting at the Start: Unlocking the K-5 Moviemaking Mind

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  1. Starting at the Start:Unlocking the K-5 Moviemaking Mind Michael Schoonmaker

  2. Definitions and Assumptions • Where am I coming from? A production-centered academic • Interchangeable terms: Moviemaking, Videomaking, Mediamaking, Media Production, ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) • What is a movie making mind? Expansion chamber, new/old discourse, multiple intelligences, the “movies in our head”

  3. What about the “unlocking” part? • Partinvitation – encourage young learners to reveal and share their stories and visual/aural imagination • Partcourage – because it could be messy. We need to consider the benefits of not holding students to form…similar to inventive spelling…encourage the expression, then deal with the form…form may frighten the child’s voice away.

  4. Unlocking the Moviemaking MindKindergarten • Exercising Development (Conservation, concrete thought, abstract thought, difficult concepts) • Starting at the start. Can you imagine what we can expectlater if we engage the studentsearlier?

  5. Kindergarten

  6. Unlocking the Moviemaking MindFirst Grade • The value in seeing (and hearing) oneself - conceiving an Organic Aesthetic • Capturing, documenting and preserving individuality • Encouraging Critical thinking: new experiences, expanding minds, increasing brainpower • Healthy images and icons of school experience

  7. First Grade

  8. Unlocking the Moviemaking MindSecond Grade • Enabling teachers in their search for the right medium to communicate a particular idea • Creating re-usable media • Exercising writing and storytelling skills • Behavior therapy

  9. Second Grade

  10. Unlocking the Moviemaking MindThird Grade • Making real connections to core educational subjects • Class bonding and collaboration • Seeing media production as discourse (not just another subject)

  11. Third Grade

  12. Unlocking the Moviemaking MindFourth Grade • Videomaking as motivation for curricular involvement – Making the idea of “Research” relevant to 4th graders. • Mediamaking used in solving problems: catching things that you can’t in other instructional ways

  13. Fourth Grade

  14. Unlocking the Moviemaking MindFifth Grade • Giving kids their wings (toward lifelong learning) • Using video to enhance expression – writing poems vs. “videoing” poems • Things they are going to remember are things that they do! (Confucius – I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand!) • Leveling the playing field – shiny penny. (expanding the intelligence playing field)

  15. Fifth Grade

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