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The purpose of this module is to explore the theory and practice of digital media meaning-making, with a specific emphasis on interactions between literacy and film-making. You will learn to manipulate digital media in the form of moving image, text-based games, and sound and music, and will work towards making your own short film in groups. You will participate in practical film and media workshops in which we will study film language and engage in short production tasks. Lectures will introduce theories related to, shifts in the educational sociocultural and textual landscape; film language and aesthetics; debates around media, popular culture and creativity; the relationships between established and new media literacies; teaching and learning with/about the moving image; and critical approaches to pedagogy and digital making. Please note, there will be creative group-work production tasks throughout the module.Ìý

Teaching delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly, whole-cohort lectures and 10 weekly smaller-grouped seminars. The final week will involve a film screening of student-made films.Ìý

Indicative Topics: Indicative lecture topics (based on module content 2023/24, subject to possible changes):

Introduction to conceptualisations of ‘Media Education’; media production projects and research in schools; digital making and ideas of creativity; computer games in education; social media, representation, and change; film-making, artistry & editing; critical, cultural & creative film education (with the BFI); ‘Fake News’ and media education; learning spaces, agency and affective practices.Ìý

Module Aims:Ìý

1. To introduce conceptual understanding of the relationship between media education, media literacy, media production and new technologies.Ìý
2. To enable students to describe the significance of media production for supporting creative and critical capacities, and for developing new pedagogies.Ìý
3. To give students experience of moving image production techniques: the use of apps, creative use of iPads and editing software.Ìý
4. To offer the opportunity to collaboratively propose, plan, produce and screen an independent short film.Ìý
5. To enable students to comment on key debates and theoretical arguments in relation to digital literacies by critically reflecting on the nature of practical creative media work in educational settings.Ìý

Recommended readings:Ìý

• Buckingham, D. (2019) The media education manifesto /. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press.Ìý
• Cannon, M., (2018). Digital Media in Education: Teaching, Learning and Literacy Practices with Young Learners. Palgrave Macmillan.Ìý
• Frau-Meigs, D., Kotilainen, S., Pathak-Shelat, M., Hoechsmann, M., & Poyntz, S. R. (Eds.) (2020). The Handbook of Media Education Research. Wiley Blackwell.