Comentarios en: Films for children, do we know how to use them? http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/09/films-for-children-do-we-know-how-to-use-them/ Otro sitio realizado con WordPress Sat, 11 Feb 2017 01:24:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.25 Por: Beatriz Sandoval http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/09/films-for-children-do-we-know-how-to-use-them/#comment-1224 Sun, 16 Nov 2014 18:22:59 +0000 http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/?p=657#comment-1224 Hi Yolanda! I saw the word ‘film’ in the title of your post and I said to myself: ‘I have to read it and comment on it.’ :)
I completely agree with you, these kinds of projects are prepared with much more motivation and enthusiasm because are directly addressed to children, and they are going to prepare us for our teaching future.
Specifically I am interested in when you talk about that we have to go deeper and to see beyond in a film. As we all know, films are inspirational resources to use in a classroom and brings many advantages. Films in education are not just a plot and actions as many teachers do with just playing a film because like this is a waste of time. We can use films with students so that they can express linguistically by telling the plot, the clothes, characteristics, feelings of the characters (obviously using scaffolding). With this, we are helping the student to express itself, not just learning contents but mainly learning new vocabulary, expressions… For example, we can use here subtitles which are a good scaffolding technique that helps the student to acquire the language written and pronunciation at the same time he/she has a visual support reference which are the images. With that, student can tell the story helped with the film’s images.

Thanks for sharing, see you!

]]> Por: rocio.hidalgo http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/2014/11/09/films-for-children-do-we-know-how-to-use-them/#comment-962 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:11:42 +0000 http://blogs.cardenalcisneros.es/childrenslit/?p=657#comment-962 Hi Yolanda!!

Firstly, I would like to say that I totally agree with you in the fact that we are really excited about working with children in a real situation, instead of just planning what we would do in a particular case or lesson. If everything goes as planned, we are going to learn and to enjoy a lot, as I believe that our learning and teacher training is deeper and more intense when we put into practice and experience that things that we are working about, and even more when the methods and materials are motivating and interesting for both teachers and students.

Furthermore, I think that another aspect that makes this project interesting for the majority of us is that we are the ones who think, plan, design and develop the activities on our own, without following specific instructions from tutors or schools (like it occurs during the practicums or when we plan microteaching lessons based on a specific script); just taking into account our teacher and classmates’ advice.

Last but not least, this project is demonstrating us the powerful and multiple uses of children films in education. Every film, even those that we think are simple and with a basic plot, can be used in many different ways to present the contents to kids through a motivating, enjoyable and cross-curricular methodology, and interesting and close materials and resources. The only thing we need is to know how to use them.

Thank you for your interesting post! :)

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