Course Description
This course is made available through the eLearnAfrica and FutureLearn partnership.
Discover how to improve literacy using film
On this online course, you’ll identify how you can use film as a key tool to deliver literacy lessons, whether online or in the classroom, with your pupils.
Enhance your pupils’ literacy learning with film
Recent research has shown film can be a powerful tool to help improve children’s reading and writing.
It can be used to develop a range of abilities – decoding, inference and analysis – as well as expanding creativity and improving vocabulary.
Explore how film is the perfect resource for blended learning
Teachers and film education experts at film education charity Into Film will help you discover what makes film so useful for learning, wherever it is taking place.
You’ll examine how to use visual storytelling to aid students’ analytical abilities and apply an understanding of sound to help pupils’ visual literacy and interpretation skills.
Create lessons that engage and excite
Discovering an array of inspiring activities and teaching frameworks, you’ll learn how to create lessons from your own homes or the classroom.
Film is a resource that’s easy to use and access, and that can hold students’ attention. You’ll come away able to create literacy lessons that will engage all.
The course is aimed at educators who are teaching their pupils either in the classroom or from home during this difficult period and are looking for engaging, relevant, and easy to use resources.
Certificate cost may vary. You will be redirected to the host page for cost and payment options.
Into Film
Into Film is a UK-wide film and education charity, which puts film at the heart of children and young people’s learning, contributing to their cultural, creative and personal development.
Its film clubs are available free to all state funded schools and colleges and provide numerous opportunities for teaching and learning through film, including access to a diverse catalogue of over 4,000 films, dynamic curriculum linked and enrichment resources, guidance for filmmaking and film reviewing, one-to-one club support and training and CPD for teachers.
In Scotland, Into Film runs a bespoke film education programme, created in collaboration with key arts and education organisations to support literacy across learning, enable the use of film across all areas of the Curriculum for Excellence and be accessible and appropriate for young people throughout Scotland.
Into Film incorporates the legacy of two leading film education charities, First Light and FILMCLUB, and will be working together with a range of partners in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Into Film is supported by the BFI, together with funding from the film industry and a number of other sources.
This institution is available on eLearnAfrica through partnership with FutureLearn.
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Effective Date: September 22, 2016