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digital media making with socially excluded children

Research Findings

Digital technology offers a wide range of new and exciting ways to explore self expression, exchange, and flexible ways of working. Media educators need to familiarise themselves with these possibilities and create contexts for play and experimentation.

Media educators need to work beyond the film making process to facilitate audience feedback in order for future productions and film makers to learn how to communicate with ‘real’ audiences.

Media educators need to recognise that film–making is a demanding educational process. They need to make special demands on individuals to teach them how to collaborate, negotiate and work in groups. Understanding technical or aesthetic terminology can be intellectually demanding and needs to the introduced as appropriate.

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