Article: Student-Produced Digital Films & Social Responsibility (ETEC 500)

How Student-Produced Digital Films Promote Social Responsibility

Students making their mark!

Students making their mark!

Literature Review (as part of the research proposal)

EDUC 500 (Dr. Cliff Falk), University of British Columbia

 Digital Film making offers promising educational communication tools to support or transform teachers’ pedagogical approaches and students’ learning experiences (Kearney and Schuck, 2003). On the one hand, schools are pressuring current educators to up-date their teaching strategies with pertinent technology. On the other hand, with the advent of web-based social networks such as YouTube, Facebook and wikis, students’ computer proficiency and fascination with communication technologies is as strong as ever.

During the past decade, increasingly affordable cameras and editing software have made it easier for scholastic institutions to equip classes and design programs focused on communicating through the creation of digital films. In addition, the relative simplicity of recent video equipment allows even elementary school children to produce short films using music and graphics. It is clearly time to examine the potential of digital film production as a didactically sound means to enhance teaching methods as well as students’ educational engagement and sense of social responsibility.

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