Pedagogical Basis of Media Projects
Lucas Horton, Multimedia Specialist, DIIA
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Student-centered
- Students are made responsible for their own learning
- Students choose and execute an approach to complete the project
- Students monitor progress and determine success
- Knowledge is generated by, not transmitted to, the learner
- Instructor serves in a facilitative role
Engages students in open-ended tasks
- Multiple pathways to successful completion
- Multimedia production tasks can be complex and inter-related
- Multimedia production often involves experimentation
- Approaches can evolve over time
Allows for rich representation of knowledge
- Digital media makes knowledge visible and apparent
- The combination of video, audio, images, and text, students can use multimedia to craft arguments, tell stories, and present information in highly dynamic and stimulating ways.
- Multimedia provides alternative ways of presenting complex information and concepts
- Encourages students to take a creative approach to communicating ideas
Supports collaborative and shared learning activities
- Media production involves the negotiation of roles
- Effective multimedia teams are highly interdependent
- Students must negotiate roles for effective group functioning
- Students engage in the evaluation and interpretation of each others’ projects
- The creation, evaluation, and use of multimedia content provides opportunities for students to engage in shared meaning making and construction of knowledge
Provides authentic tasks and contextualized learning
- The process of creating multimedia closely mirrors many real-world tasks
- Adds meaningful context to learning experiences
- Promotes the use of authentic social interactions and approaches to teamwork
Promotes the generation of transferable skills and knowledge
- Multimedia production skills are applicable to students’ personal, professional, and academic lives
- Multimedia production techniques and principals can be applied across a wide range of computer-based tools
- The creation of digital media prepares students to critically evaluate media in different contexts
Fosters critical thinking
- Students must:
- Evaluate content and craft a message
- Consider multiple perspectives, including that of their audience
- Develop ways to organize and present information
- Choose appropriate forms of media to effectively communicate ideas
- Media engages students to transform information into knowledge
