new media's in education 2
Date Submitted: 05/06/2003 16:12:02
Integrating Film and Television into Social Studies Instruction
By their own accounts and those of their critics, the current generation of
students is a video generation. They learned to read with Big Bird on "Sesame
Street" and their view of the world has been largely formed and shaped through visual culture. This familiarity can make film and video a powerful pedagogical tool. Visual media also address different learning modalities, making material more accessible to visual
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Net surfers may want to look at "Screening the Past: An International Electronic Journal of Visual Media and History" at http://www.latrobe.edu.au/www/screeningthepast and "Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television Studies" at http://h-net2.msu.edu/~filmhis/. More information on media literacy can be acquired through the Center for Media Literacy in Los Angeles, California, telephone: 213-931-4177; FAX: 213-931-4474; World Wide Web: http://www.medialit.org/.
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