Post on 21-Sep-2020
Giant Screen Films and Lifelong Learning
Memorable LearningExperiences in Giant Screen
Films
Diverse Ages Wide Range of Prior Knowledge Interest in Learning Expectation of Good Storytelling
Who is the audience?
Content knowledge e.g. facts Enriched understanding, context Ability to visualize New attitudes, perspectives and
approaches
What constitutes learning?
The Human Body
De-familiarizing the familiar
• “healthy”• “fit”• “overweight”• “good”• “tired”• “out of shape”
Prior to watching the film, weasked viewers how they feltabout their bodies ….
The Human Body
New landscapes
After viewing the filmresponses about how they feltabout their bodies were verydifferent….
•“extraordinary”•“intricately made”•“cool”•“complicated”•“complex”•“fantastic”•“I could still use a tattoo, butit’s amazing,”
•“amazing”•“marvelous”•“miraculous”•“awesome”•“fascinating”•“incredible”•“It’s an amazing machine”•“Awesome! Only God couldmake it”
Wired to Win: Survivingthe Tour de France
Integrating Science and Story
Factual knowledge (multiple choice)…
Figure 12Experience of pain
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Which of the following istrue about how weexperience pain?
a. ____ Pain is eased at the site of theinjury where adrenaline is released.
b. ____ Pain is eased in the brain whenendorphins are released.
c. ____ Pain is eased when synapses inthe brain expand to releasehormones.
d. ____ Pain is eased when endorphinsfrom the brain and pain signals fromthe injury meet in the spinal column.
Perception of learning (rating scales)…
Learning
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How the brainresponds to
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The names ofthe parts of the
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How our brainresponds to
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The role of thebrain in
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The role of thebrain in focusing
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Means on scale of 1(didn't learn anything)to 3 (learned a lot)
Interesting facts learned (open-endedquestions)…
Interesting facts learned
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Dinosaurs Alive
Visualizing Scientific Processes
Dinosaurs Alive
Visualizing Scientific Processes
Visualizing scientific processes
“I will remember the flood water rushing through –you don’t get that from the exhibit descriptions.”
“I liked the flash flood recreation. That showed theimagination paleontologist uses to recreate theevents – it was memorable.”
“[what was] extremely effective was the way the filmand education can meet – when they showed thereal life fossil and dissolved to animated bird.”
“when the fossil on the cliffs became an animatedbird – that was so effective.”
These films enrich the learningexperience with the followingtechniques:
De-familiarize the ordinary
These films enrich the learningexperience with the followingtechniques:
De-familiarize the ordinary Expand the notion of landscape to include
worlds outside of the everyday human view
These films enrich the learningexperience with the followingtechniques:
De-familiarize the ordinary Expand the notion of landscape to include
worlds outside of the everyday human view Manipulate scale and time, such as through
macrophotography and slow motion
These films enrich the learningexperience with the followingtechniques:
De-familiarize the ordinary Expand the notion of landscape to include
worlds outside of the everyday human view Manipulate scale and time, such as through
macrophotography and slow motion Juxtapose perspectives
These films enrich the learningexperience with the followingtechniques:
De-familiarize the ordinary Expand the notion of landscape to include
worlds outside of the everyday human view Manipulate scale and time, such as through
macrophotography and slow motion Juxtapose perspectives Storytelling matters; human characters and
motivation make the science engaging
These films enrich the learningexperience with the followingtechniques:
De-familiarize the ordinary Expand the notion of landscape to include
worlds outside of the everyday human view Manipulate scale and time, such as through
macrophotography and slow motion Juxtapose perspectives Storytelling matters; human characters and
motivation make the science engaging Use visuals to scaffold imagination
An invitation to discuss…
Please come talk to me duringthe conference about yourthoughts on any and all of this.