{"id":408,"date":"2012-04-21T09:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T00:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/?p=408"},"modified":"2012-05-13T18:58:42","modified_gmt":"2012-05-13T09:58:42","slug":"becoming-a-polyglot-adding-media-speak-and-tech-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/2012\/04\/21\/becoming-a-polyglot-adding-media-speak-and-tech-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a Polyglot; Adding Media-Speak and Tech-Speak"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently went to see Martin Scorsese\u00e2\u20ac\u2122<\/a>s first film created for children called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hugo<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on the award-winning book, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Invention of Hugo Cabret<\/a>.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The movie followed the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plot-line fairly closely and was a perfect vehicle for the partially fictional story which centered on one of film\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s early pioneers, Georges M\u00c3\u00a9li\u00c3\u00a8s<\/a>. Scorsese claims that he decided to make the film after one of his children complained that they were not allowed to see any of his films, which often carry an \u00e2\u20ac\u0153R\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rating. When I discovered that Scorsese had started a visual literacy program for middle school students, everything seemed to fit together.<\/p>\n

The program was created when Scorsese realized that kids needed to tools to interpret the\u00c2\u00a0 visual imagery that they are immersed in every day. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153So much of today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s society is done visually, and even subliminally, for young people, that it could be dangerous. One has to know that it is a very, very powerful tool.<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The director should know. He was not willing to let his own young children watch his powerful movies; the images and ideas that they presented were not appropriate to their stage of development. The awareness of other images that they were being confronted with on a daily basis, no doubt occurred to him at the same time.<\/p>\n

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Helping students develop visual critical thinking skills in the area of film is like teaching them a new language. Once they learn the syntax of film-making, they can understand how a commercial or YouTube video or Hollywood movie is using\u00c2\u00a0 all of filmmaking\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s vocabulary and structure to evoke a response or shape an opinion. Fluency in a language is a powerful tool. Once students understand how a movie is attempting to communicate or even manipulate them, they are no longer easily controlled by those images. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Story of Movies<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a free curriculum package available to educators in the U.S. It teaches about how movies are made in a cross-curricular format, delving into both the science of lighting, and the psychology of the different uses of light, for example.<\/p>\n

This visual fluency also translates to technological fluency. Those most adept at using computer tools will be the most adept at manipulating and taking advantage of others (on the dark side of this skill set) and most successful at educating and teaching important truths and discoveries (on the light side of this skill set).<\/p>\n

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from Wikipedia<\/p><\/div>\n

Just as a linguistic language is used to teach throughout the school day in many different subjects, computer literacy must be woven throughout the curriculum as a way to understand and communicate the actual content. There are times when one must stop and intentionally teach a language, but then that language is immediately put to use for many important purposes.<\/p>\n

The ISTE standards<\/a> do not do much good being taught on their own, apart from the many subjects of study at school. They need to be woven throughout the content, used where and when appropriate, and as the students become more fluent in these standards, the results become more and more sophisticated and polished. The more a language is practiced and used in real-world situations, the more fluent the speaker becomes. Many students at our international school are already mastering second and third languages, and this is very valuable to them as they navigate between several countries, cultures and peer groups, often within the space of just a few years. Because these students are already navigating the choppy waters of a media-rich world, we, as educators, need to be facilitating tech-speak and media-speak as an essential second language in the lives of our learners. Learning the language can help them from being blown off course or diverted by a technologically-savvy dastardly villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently went to see Martin Scorsese\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first film created for children called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Hugo,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d based on the award-winning book, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Invention of Hugo Cabret.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The movie followed the book\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plot-line fairly closely and was a perfect vehicle for the partially … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[69,208,11,66,67,70,65,68,41],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ruth.ingulsrud.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}