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Which of these movies would you most want to see?
Together we looked for ‘cheese holes’, or spaces in the story that allow the audience to participate in, contribute further to, and augment the original story using their own intelligence and imagination.
The perfect companion (pun intended) for any devotee of the show, whether veteran or newbie, teen, tween, or adult...
Learning About the Holocaust Through ‘Schindler’s List’ and IWitness
Media Literacy, Movies, New Media, Social Studies, Transliteracy
|"One of the students said to me, 'You know IWitness is kind of like a cross between a library and YouTube.'"
"Teaching media literacy seems almost as important as teaching any other subject because it is one of the main ways that young people learn and develop--and if you don't know how to navigate the basics of consuming media and using media, you're in trouble."
"It was purposeful that the IWitness platform was built with media literacy and school standards around digital education right at the center of its architecture."
Schindler’s List is a film that really doesn’t need much of an introduction from me. If you’ve seen it, you’ve seen it. If you haven’t, you probably should. Perhaps more than any other piece of moving-image media it has contributed to the “media construction” of the Holocaust for contemporary audiences, taking its place alongside Night […]
"I want to be a filmmaker that is able to capture what my generation thinks, how they act, and what they ultimately stand for." -Andrew Jenks
Teenagers feel uncomfortable with the foreign setting, the emphasis on character and plot development. Yet, as students become engrossed in the story, they surrender to the “foreignness”...
Just in case you missed this gallery of reimagined posters for the Best Picture Oscar nominees when College Humor debuted it last month...
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