Moving Image Education

I have not had any experience with Moving Image Education (MIE) in the primary school, so it is all new to me.  I also unfortunately missed the input on MIE so I have done my best to research it.  I apologise in advance if this post is not too great!

The term 'moving image education' refers to learning and teaching practices which develop moving image media literacy. Creative Scotland (2009).  This includes learning through cartoons, films and adverts.  This makes a strong link to the Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) principle relevance as television is significant in the vast majority of children’s present lives, therefore children are likely to “see the value of what they are learning” Scottish Government (2008).

MIE can be used to encourage children to discuss what they see and hear:

“Moving Image Education is about helping young people to question, analyse, explore and understand the meaning of what they’re watching and hearing” Creative Scotland (2009).

It helps develop children’s higher order thinking skills, which is extremely important to their educational development.

Children can develop 21^st century literacy as they analyse in MIE.  If children are to spend time analysing other people’s films, they can hugely improve the quality of their own creative work.  I believe this again links to the principle relevance as there is a great purpose for children analysing other people’s films and if this is explained to them, they will be able to see the importance of what they’re learning and how it benefits them.

“'Exploring' moving images involves enjoying a wide variety of films and using them as springboards into lots of different areas of culture” Creative Scotland (2009).  This links to the CfE principle breadth, as here a range of subjects can be covered across the curriculum.  I also believe it meets the CfE principle coherence as clear links between proposed learning would be evident and there would be many “opportunities for extended activities” Scottish Government (2008).

ICT can be a remarkable enhancement to learning, if used properly.  “Many believe that moving image education should be an integral part of literacy work across the curriculum, rather than a separate 'subject'” Creative Scotland (2009).  I agree with this, as I do with ICT as a whole.  I think ICT should be used to enhance learning across all areas of the curriculum, to engage children deeper and to make learning more enjoyable.

References

Creative Scotland and D fie foe (2009). Moving Image Education.

Available: http://www.movingimageeducation.org/ [Last accessed: 11.2.12]

Scottish Government (2008). Curriculum for Excellence: Principles for curriculum design. Edinburgh: Scottish Government.

Available:http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/understandingthecurriculum/howisthecurriculumstructured/principles/index.asp  [Last accessed: 11.2.12]