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Case Study 7
Overview
General Overview
You are a film studies teacher at a secondary school. You are part of a team of three teachers that teaches drama, music, and film.
Description of Students
Twenty-five of your students will participate in a project. The students are all in the same class and are 13 and 14 years old.
Learning and Teaching Environment
The school has a computer lab that contains the following ICT resources:
One television
One DVD player
One data projector
One interactive whiteboard
One high-quality sound system
Six low-cost digital video cameras
One professional grade, high-definition video camera
15 powerful computers that are connected to the Internet
Professional grade film editing and music production software
The teachers also have access to desktop computers located in the faculty lounge and the administration offices.
Learning Activities
The school plans to introduce a more collaborative approach between teachers of different subjects.
The team identifies an opportunity to create a collaborative learning activity for the students of drama, music and film. The team plans to complete the collaborative
project in four weeks.
Currently, the students study each of the three subjects for one hour per week.
The school will pay a local filmmaker to visit the students for a one hour lesson early in the project. The filmmaker will answer the students’ questions and
demonstrate how to use film-editing software.
The filmmaker will also be available during each project lesson via video-conference link, telephone, and email.
Objectives
Learning Objectives
You identify the following learning objectives:
Improve the students’ ability to work collaboratively within a creative framework.
Create a 60-second film trailer that combines live action film, voice-over narration, and original music.
Professional Development Objectives
The professional development objectives for the team are to:
use ICT effectively for teaching and learning;
incorporate appropriate ICT activities into lesson plans so that students work collaboratively within a creative framework; and
integrate the use of ICT into the curriculum.
Pedagogical objectives
The school plans to increase the use of cross-curricular approaches to help the students understand learning as a connected experience rather than a set of
separate disciplines.
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The students recently started using the film editing software.
You want to ensure that the students benefit as much as possible from the filmmaker’s visit.
What should you do?
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A.
Schedule the filmmaker to present a one-hour lecture to the entire class.
B.
Schedule each student to individually ask the filmmaker questions.
C.
Have each student email you a list of questions before the visit.
D.
Have the students use a wiki to collaborate on a list of questions for the filmmaker.