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Technology Education for you and your students - Technological Practices of Film Makers

Marion Douglas

A brief background will be provided to present links between film and technology education within the New Zealand Curriculum. Teachers will view segments of The Amazing Extraordinary Friends, a television series developed for young people. Web pages developed by Marion will be used to introduce the technological practices of the developers and producers of the programme. Innovations and challenges arising from rapid technological and social change will be discussed.  Background film footage, interviews and photographs will be used to supplement teachers understandings of the process of development and find links between the values, key competencies and other areas of learning. The nature of this technology will be explored along with the technological knowledge applied in the production of the programme. Teachers will be given the opportunity to briefly discuss wider applications of these materials in school and classrooms settings and ask questions.

Teachers are encouraged to bring their own laptop computers as they will be given their own DVD to use.

Intended Audience

Teachers from primary through to secondary school.

Presenter Biography

Marion is a Royal Society Teacher Fellow this year. She is hosted by Greenstone Pictures in Auckland where she is studying the career pathways and technological practices of film makers. Marion has had an active role in technology education over the past 14 years and spent the past four years teaching technology and art at Zayed College for Girls, in Mangere, Auckland.