Week 8: Media Arts Lecture

 

What are the Media Arts ?

 

This week’s lecture was lead by Miranda Jefferson, which is a new aspect of creative arts in the NSW Australian Curriculum. Having said that, I was very excited and willing to delve into this component of the unit, as I have never had a chance to learn more about it.  Nowadays technology is rapidly growing and increasing through today’s world with many more expectations to come, so children have experienced and seen the range of technologies out there, which are linked closely with Media Arts. Walsh (2004) believes “Literacy practices of students outside school reveal engagement with mobile, gaming, and digital technologies with less interest in reading and writing print-based texts, particularly literature.” (p.14). I strongly believe this to be as it enhances a child’s learning through engaging them with the use of technology but also integrating other Key Learning Areas with Creative Arts and other curriculum areas. This helps to support student’s learning and engagement in making meaning with media arts as well as connecting ideas from other peers as collaborative team. Moreover, an assessment idea for teachers could be the use of film making, but it also allows teacher’s and future teacher’s like myself, to integrate film making with all of the creative arts strands by making connections to other KLA’S like: English through writing a script, drama; through role play. Film learning is an example of a sociocultural approach to learning because learning in this area relies heavily on the collaboration of learners who bring their own unique knowledge and backgrounds to the creative learning process. Film is a collaborative art form." (Anderson & Jefferson, 2009, p.12).

 

References:

Anderson, M., & Jefferson, M. (2009). Teaching the screen: Film education for generation next. Sydney, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

Walsh, M (2004). Multimodal literacy: researching classroom practises: Primary English Association (e:lit). - New Literacy practises.