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MEDIA LITERACY AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE
Strategies, Debates and Good Practices
Yvonne Berge (Berge, 1985) indicates that it is just not possible that a child or
adolescent to communicate if they are not in touch with his being, and that this
communication will develop even better if you have a guide to help you express
yourself without losing your identity.
Thus was born the third objective of the Film Workshop Basic Level which
becomes in the principal one:
• Develop the students' contact with their senses, helping them to
understand through the exploration of the same, the functions of
nonverbal communication that meets the audio-visual language.
Being able to learn about the psychological, thanks to the contributions of
Piaget and Vygotsky, during the exchange process in the Faculty of Education
at the University of Salamanca, helped me understand that the only way
someone can retain the knowledge it is by discovering it through
experimentation. So then I realized that the role of a true teacher is to lead
students to learning spaces, approaching these theoretical issues using all my
skills to create attractive formats, simple to understand and generate in him or
her analysis and production of signifiers and meanings.
The process of creating these learning spaces was preceded by introspection
and also the profound observation of my target audience, as to build games,
audiovisual materials, choose movies as examples, etc. I had to remind myself
really well at that age. I started the process of listening and trying to understand
the comments and proposals of the children and adolescents, warning their
quickness to assimilate certain issues, incorporating experiences or prior
knowledge that most had in common, noting the themes where they were
already experts, and what motivated them to come to each class. All of this
information was mixed up with strategies and concepts related to everything
learned over the years: psychology, educommunication, film history, semiotics,
advertising, marketing, aesthetics among many other subjects, to forge ways to
motivate and reach the interest in knowledge and communication.
The most important and arduous process has been identifying the specific
message we want to broadcast, understand the receiver and create
metaphorical communications channels by using games. Our main interest it is
not only share knowledge, but to find a way of originate the information in the
other, to conquer the memory based on experiences and creating meaningful
learning.
If we applied the terms used in anthropology we could say that one must be a
cultural relativist to make contact with the other, and thus reach more easily a
horizontal exchange of knowledge
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