Moving Image Education (MIE)

During all my previous placements I have not come across any first hand expeirence of moving image education so I found researching about it very interesting.

The term "moving image education" itself refers to learning and teaching practices which develop moving image media literacy.

These practices include, analysing moving image texts, creating them, exploring, appreciating and sharing them, and being discerning about them. These practices are all represented in the "3cs'" of media literacy.

Why do we need MIE?

Moving image plays a large role in today's modern world;

• It has a large influence on global culture and communication.
• It has played a large part in over a century of human culture and history.
• It is constantly expaning economically.

For these reasons, and various others, it is important that we teach children beyond the traditional printed and spoken word and introduce them to a range of moving image and media in the classroom. It seems to me that it would be silly and a wasted opportunity if we as teachers do not use something that is so prominant in today's society and that offers a range of educational purposes to it's full potential within the classroom. 


Why study MIE?

From an early age children are exposed to many forms of moving images such as television and video. These are often the first cultural experiences children come across and they immediately being to make sense of moving images, for example they will being to understand that different sounds and music will signal different things such as danger or happieness.

Creative Scotland stresses the importance of learning about moving images for the same reason we learn about books in that they offer "unique opportunities to share the knowledge and imagination of others" (2009, no page).

From my own expierence I often found that many children are put off work if it consists of reading a book or a large piece of text. If I knew that the children were to be doing this I would always try and find a video clip or some form of media to introduce the lesson as it always seemed to engage the pupils. I can only imagine the particpation and interest if the whole lesson was based around a form of moving image media.


MIE and the Curriculum for Excellence



 Moving Image Education (ADMC) and Scottish Screen (2006, p4) (can be found at http://www.movingimageeducation.org/files/pdfs/mie-and-a-curriculum-for-excellence-2006-booklet.pdf).

As you can see MIE offers a range of opportunities within a classroom. Various films can be used to engage a class in different forms of writing from imaginative to factual. I personally feel that the best opportunity shown in the diagram above is creating a class moving image text. I myself have been creating a small film with other members of my ICT elective class  which will be uploaded onto a website. We are only half way through the process and already it has provied a range of cross curricular links from language to drama. When carrying out something like this it caters for almost every child in the class.

"Film demands lots of different skills which means that a whole class or community group can participate. Not only writers, artists, performers, musicians and technicians, but organisers, planners, computer whizz kids.... everyone will have something to contribute to the group activities." (Creative Scotland, 2009, no page).

Moving Image Education, if used correctly in the classroom can produce brilliant results from varying ages and abilities.

References

Creative Scotland (2009) Moving Image Education Can be found at
http://www.movingimageeducation.org/resources/moving-image-education/whats-it-about
[accessed 27/1/12]

Moving Image Education (ADMC) and Scottish Screen (2006) Moving Image Education and A Curriculum for Excellence Can be found at;
http://www.movingimageeducation.org/files/pdfs/mie-and-a-curriculum-for-excellence-2006-booklet.pdf
[accessed 27/1/12]