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By Nikos Theodosakis
The Director in the Classroom
These are exciting and demanding times for teaching and learning.
Students, parents and educators are participants in a world that is changing before their collective eyes. And as the world continually gets smaller and more complex, the need for the exploration and understanding of that world becomes critical for our students.
As a parent myself, I hear my own young daughters raise questions in arenas that I don’t recall knowing about or asking about when I was their age.
It seems young people are wired into cultural, political, scientific, financial, and environmental worlds much more than when I was reading about Dick and Jane.
Young people are technologically hip. They get technology that is, how to make it work, and how to make it work for them. Witness music file sharing, CD burning, personal web sites, instant messaging, cell phones and of course the use of digital cameras.
Where I believe a great potential exists for education is to combine these two trends to inspire learning.
In other words, to use students passion for technology to fuel the active exploration of their world.
This is why filmmaking with digital video in the classroom is both exciting and important.
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