One of the best and, depending on how you look at it, one of the worst things about our smartphones is that we now have a camera in our pocket.
It means that every moment has the potential to turn into a captured memory. But it also means that every moment may become a captured memory. See the issue?
Why is a movie about a young boy learning kung fu called The Karate Kid? For most of the film's young audience, Jaden Smith's break-out movie doesn't explain the confusion. Their parents and older siblings, however, may recall the earlier installments in this series which started with a young Ralph Macchio learning karate from Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, a movie which started as the hero's quest to learn karate to overcome his tormentors and evolved by film's end into a coming-of-age story about the bond between mentor and student. The first Karate Kid struck a chord with audiences, becoming the fifth-highest grossing film of 1984.
In this unit, students will examine the role of popular culture celebrities in creating awareness of world issues. Students will debate whether celebrity involvement is important and positive, or whether such involvement brings too much attention to the celebrities themselves, overshadowing the central messages of a campaign, organization, program or issue.
In this lesson, students learn the elements of game design and make a prototype game, then give feedback on other students’ games.
In this lesson, students learn how the comics medium works and try their hand at making simple comics.
In this lesson, students learn how animation works and make simple flipbook animations. They are then introduced to the pre-production, production and post-production process by planning and making a shot stop-motion animation. The lesson ends with a film festival of students’ videos.
In this lesson, students learn about the digital story format. They watch a video that explains the elements of a digital story and how to make one that is compelling, then brainstorm their own short digital stories. They use a story table to plan the project in detail and then create a video using the MediaSmarts Digital Story Maker.