WebQuest
Film Studies: The Silent Era (1915-1928) LESSON #2
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This Webquest is intended for students who are learning about the history of film for the first time. This Webquest is intended for high school students. This is just a broad overview to the silent era. For a more in depth look in the history of American film, please consult my main source American Film: A History by Jon Lewis, Norton Publishing, 2008.
Adaptations (For Students With Learning Disabilities)- Instead of a paper, they will be asked for a simple response to F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise". What they thought...Did they think the movie was entertaining?
Extensions (For Gifted Students) - These students would be asked to pick clips from F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise" and anyalize their importance to the plot and their visual importance.
TEACHER NOTES:
-MAKE SURE THE KIDS ARE STAYING ON TASK! Perhaps prohibiting all other sites, other than the ones shown, should be done so the kids stay on task. Make sure their taking notes.
-Ultimately, this is their assignment to pay close attention to. By making sure their focusing by prohibiting access to other sites might be necessary.
-Implement a group discussion after their done viewing all the sites. Ask for general reactions.
STANDARDS:
For Students: Based off of the State of Connecticut's Common Core of Learning
-Visual Arts-Media: Students will understand, select and apply media, techniques and processes.
-Visual Arts-History and Cultures: Students will understand the visual arts in relation to history and cultures.
-Visual Arts-Content: Students will consider, select and apply a range of subject matter, symbols and ideas
For Teachers: Based off of the State of Connecticut's Common Core of Teaching: Discipline-Based Professional Teaching Standards for Teachers of Visual Art
-I.Knowledge of Visual Arts: Representative artists, artworks and objects
-III.Importance of the Visual Arts: Art Teachers understand the nature and significance of the visual arts.
ISTE-NETS Standards for Students
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Students apply digital tools to gather, evaluate, and use information. Students: | |||||||
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ISTE-NETS Standards - Teachers
1. Facilitate and Inspire Student Learning and Creativity
Teachers use their knowledge of subject matter, teaching and learning, and technology to facilitate experiences that advance student learning, creativity, and innovation in both face-to-face and virtual environments. Teachers:
a. promote, support, and model creative and innovative thinking and inventiveness. b. engage students in exploring real-world issues and solving authentic problems using digital tools and resources. c. promote student reflection using collaborative tools to reveal and clarify students' conceptual understanding and thinking, planning, and creative processes. d. model collaborative knowledge construction by engaging in learning with students, colleagues, and others in face-to-face and virtual environments.
2. Design and Develop Digital-Age Learning Experiences and Assessments
Teachers design, develop, and evaluate authentic learning experiences and assessment incorporating contemporary tools and resources to maximize content learning in context and to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes identified in the NETS•S. Teachers:
a. design or adapt relevant learning experiences that incorporate digital tools and resources to promote student learning and creativity.
b. develop technology-enriched learning environments that enable all students to pursue their individual curiosities and become active participants in setting their own educational goals, managing their own learning, and assessing their own progress. c. customize and personalize learning activities to address students' diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources. d. provide students with multiple and varied formative and summative assessments aligned with content and technology standards and use resulting data to inform learning and teaching.
3. Model Digital-Age Work and Learning
Teachers exhibit knowledge, skills, and work processes representative of an innovative professional in a global and digital society. Teachers:
a. demonstrate fluency in technology systems and the transfer of current knowledge to new technologies and situations. b. collaborate with students, peers, parents, and community members using digital tools and resources to support student success and innovation.
c. communicate relevant information and ideas effectively to students, parents, and peers using a variety of digital-age media and formats. d. model and facilitate effective use of current and emerging digital tools to locate, analyze, evaluate, and use information resources to support research and learning.
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