ABSTRACT
The melding of teacher skills and intuition with student imagination and creativity is a powerful and grossly under-utilised resource in modern secondary schooling. Access to the camera and the moving image is not a recent phenomenon, but the ‘massification’ and consequent democratisation of the form certainly are. Students in Western economies have access to inexpensive cameras, phones and film editing programs that means they can produce, shoot and edit their stories without buying professional or specialised equipment. Mobile phones are a key device in the lives of students, for whom interactive technologies are entertainment, identity maintenance and communication devices— all at the same time. Teaching the Screen is focused on the development of film narratives. Film learning is ideally placed to fit within the ‘productive pedagogies’, ‘new basics’ or ‘quality teaching’ movement. One of the essential steps on the journey toward a cohesive pedagogy is to articulate what a screen learning framework could be.
