Lights, Camera, Digital Action! March 11
Teaching Matters’ DigiDocs Institute and Student Film Festival will showcase videos created by NYC elementary, middle and high school students June 8, 2007. The Festival brings history and arts alive with documentaries focused on topics as varied and meaningful as Brown vs. Board of Education and bullying in school.
According to an Principal as Technology Leader in Principal Leadership this February, technology expenditures and usage in schools have increased 300% in the last three decades. Over 92% of U.S. elementary and secondary schools and classrooms were connected in 2004. Sounds great, but there is often a lack of professional development on how to integrate and absence of coordination to ensure its equitable use and maintenance. We better do good with what we can get our hands on – get into those vaults, dig your way around the closets, write a grant, and get digitized! In 2004, 83% of homes with children aged 17-21 have computers and around 78% of those were online. Guide your students’ digital experience by facilitating their project. As the web weaves itself immense, meaningful surfing and contribution becomes a learned skill and teaching must-do.
Check out documentaries from previous festivals. Use them to inspire your entry, (register to save a spot now, submissions due Friday, May 25) or supplement any lesson with this peer production.