"Project Based Learning (PBL) prepares students for academic, personal, and career success, and readies young people to rise to the challenges of their lives and the world they will inherit."
-Buck Institute for Education
"Filmmaking serves as a vehicle of transfer, a way for learning outcomes to be transferred from the filmmaking process to other aspects of life. Its process encourages meaningful, content-rich, student-driven learning. "
-Merle Huerta, Edutopia
First Impressions & Opinions
Filmmaking DOES fit into K12 Curriculum
Student Benefits
• Practice Writing Skills
• Practice Listening and Speaking Skills
• Practice Research Skills
• Have Fun Taping
• Collaborate with a Group
• Avoid Embarrassment and Anxiety of Live Presentations
• No "Death by Slideshow"
• Few "Techie" Skills Required
Credit to Jacqui Murray, @AskATechTeacher
Educator Benefits
• Address Ethical Use of Internet
• Promote Critical Media Consumption
• Provide Students with Multiple Ways to Access Core Content
• Empower and Connect Students
• Respond to Current Research
• Engage Students
Credit to Gail Desler, @GailDesler
Pedagogical Benefits
Hannele Niemi & Jari Multisilta (2016) Digital storytelling promoting twenty-first century skills and student engagement, Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 25:4, 451-468, DOI: 10.1080/1475939X.2015.1074610
Mengel, M.A. & Rose, J.M. (2017). Recursive Composition and "Happy Accidents": A Collaboration for Teaching Video Production. In J. Johnston (Ed.), Proceedings of EdMedia 2017 (pp. 657-661). Washington, DC: Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE). Retrieved March 6, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/primary/p/178375/.
Peterson, Meghann. (2016). Digital Video as a Summative Assessment Tool. Retrieved from Sophia, the St. Catherine University repository website: https://sophia.stkate.edu/maed/189
Sahin, A. (2015). STEM Students on the Stage (SOS): Promoting Student Voice and Choice in STEM Education through an Interdisciplinary, Standards-focused Project Based Learning Approach. Journal of STEM Education, 16(3),. Laboratory for Innovative Technology in Engineering Education (LITEE). Retrieved March 5, 2019 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/151970/.
Catharyn C. Shelton, Leanna M. Archambault & Annie E. Hale (2017) Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Elementary Classroom: Video Production for Preservice Teachers, Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education, 33:2, 58-68, DOI: 10.1080/21532974.2016.1276871