Improving Media Literacy

How we can get things moving

Teacher Training

Give interested teachers a couple of days out of the classroom and they will demonstrate their skill and enthusiasm. Look at the pattern developed by the Apple video seminars - four days in a pleasant location working on video.

Training should be acompanied by kit which they can become familiar with. What about a course with free camera and software?

Film study and use should be included in Initial Teacher Training. However as this takes place more in schools and teacher training institutions are short of time and money perhaps ITT students could bring with them a basic kit and a day's training with the mission of introducing it to staff as well as using it in the classroom. The kit would stay in the shool and the student might have to provide staff training.