Multimedia Production and Media Education in Learning Process
Course code
KAA6137.HR
old course code
Course title in Estonian
Multimeediumi loomine ja meediakasvatuse rakendamine õppeprotsessis
Course title in English
Multimedia Production and Media Education in Learning Process
ECTS credits
6.0
Assessment form
assessment
lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Kaire Kollom (language of instruction:English, Estonian)
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
To give an overview about possibilities of creating multimedia content in a preschool learning process (picture, sound, video, animation) and support practical skills to use media education with children. To explain the basic concepts of media literacy and the key concepts of the filmmaking. To raise awareness about media risks and opportunities and the importance of media as one developmental environment in child’s comprehensive development. To associate creation of multimedia and media education with the national curriculum for preschool child care institutions. To offer readiness to implement media content and ICT tools to shape children’s media awareness and understanding. The course offers practical solutions and guidance for the creation of multimedia and using media education to support children’s development.
Brief description of the course
Introduction to the course, registration to the eDidaktikum.ee portal. Creating digital pictures, picture editing, making screen-shots and digital drawings. Picture in learning process. Digitally created and designed advert for event. The basics of audio-visual literacy. History of animation. Phases of creating animation. Scenario. Frame. Animation types. Making videos, film terms, video editing software, screen recorder software. Video in learning process. Sound recording, sound editing programs. Sounds in learning process, sharing multimedia. Media mechanisms, impact means. Legislation. Possible impact of media – dangers and opportunities. New literacy and media-consciousness. Cross-media and participatory culture. Didactic basic principles of media education and pre-school educational establishments and national curriculum. Means of media and its content and areas of learning and educational activities. Value education and media. Secure use of ICT, age-specific online-etiquette. The role and possibilities of an adult as a leader and tutor of media-use, cooperation between pre-school and home, peer culture.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- creates appropriate tools and software based on the multimedia type by using different multimedia, taking into account the basics of audiovisual literacy, integration between fields of teaching and education, and the principles of media education;
- analyses the possibilities of using different multimedia in the teaching and education process of a kindergarten and the associations with the national study programme of a preschool child care institution;
- makes sense of the relative importance of (digital) media as one growth environment in a preschool child’s comprehensive development, finding solutions to possible problems arising from media and being ready to counsel parents (including using different digital era media and formats) in more general educational issues that are related to media.
- creates appropriate tools and software based on the multimedia type by using different multimedia, taking into account the basics of audiovisual literacy, integration between fields of teaching and education, and the principles of media education;
- analyses the possibilities of using different multimedia in the teaching and education process of a kindergarten and the associations with the national study programme of a preschool child care institution;
- makes sense of the relative importance of (digital) media as one growth environment in a preschool child’s comprehensive development, finding solutions to possible problems arising from media and being ready to counsel parents (including using different digital era media and formats) in more general educational issues that are related to media.
Teacher
Kaire Kollom, MSc, MA; Elyna Heinmäe, PhD
Prerequisite course 1
Prerequisite course 2
The course is a prerequisite
Additional information
This course is a part of acquiring the teacher, level 6 elective competence Implementing digital pedagogy during the studies.
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