- Before he even started being interviewed he talked about his own experience and it rang true to me how he expressed that he had curiosity in understanding what the photographer wanted him to see. So he researched the lenses and the angles to reiterate the point that curiosity is the natural urge for anyone to want to have a deeper understanding. The natural ability to want to learn which i believe is important throughout an teaching career.
- Then Scorsese began to discuss how emotions and ideas are expressed through visual examples. This I believe is another very strong point. Children at any age need to learn how to express themselves in a safe and clear way and showing them examples on how to express themselves is the beginning for them to learn what is appropriate.
- Scorsese's last point also coincides with his next one, how to understand and interpret pictures. This would not only be a profound suggestion for students to follow but also so they do not interpret pictures and ideas incorrectly. I also believe that this would help students understand about violence in movies and video games, that it should not be the first choice. That in most movies and video games, at least historic ones, killing was not the first option. That there is more back round and more democratic decisions that should be made before a physical intention is declared.
- I believe that is also the responsibility of the parents and the teachers to help mold, lead, and train the student's minds. Students need to be taught the stories behind movies. Like most of us did when we were in school, we read the book before we watched any part of the movie. My husband is a history teacher and after discussing Vietnam, he shows pieces from Forrest Gump and used the movie October Sky to show examples of the space race. I believe that when Scorsese stated that we need to teach the eye and the heart by asking questions and by doing this it trains the mind to think he made a very strong and pin point declaration. That by giving students back round stories and back round knowledge to violent or discouraging movies, that it opens their minds to what really happened and strike curiosity that will feed into their own desire for deeper knowledge.
I believe that this discussion relates to my future teaching of early childhood students because i believe that being a teacher of young minds, you already receive the students with a natural curiosity for the world and I am the one that gets to assist them and help train their minds to fulfill their natural curiosity and help them keep that consistent curiosity to learn about everything they possibly can.
2 comments:
Your comment that we help train our students' minds really made me think. What we teach in our classes really does shape what our students are interested in. Using visual (and other) elements in our classes could be great for our students, especially if we use things like the digital stories and podcasts we've been talking about in our class. We need to keep our students' interests in academic matters high, and using technology may be the best way to do that.
I think that having students read a book and then watch the movie is a great way for students to make a connection between literacy and film. I have always enjoyed comparing what I thought the characters and setting looked like in my head to it is portrayed in a movie. I think visual literacy is very important to young students, especially because in this day in age that is all they are exposed to at home.
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