The White House is looking for videos (up to 3 minutes) that “highlight the power of technology in schools” through films addressing the current technology use in classrooms or school and/or the role technology will play in education in the future. Among the topics:
How does technology help with:
- Personalized Learning
- Online Learning
- Global Collaboration
- Student Creativity
- Making and Tinkering
- Project Based Learning
- Critical Thinking
The video might show, e.g.:
- The use of technology as a creation tool
- The use of technology in new and innovative ways
- The use of technology to access high quality online content and resources
- Technology in schools.
This could be an excellent opportunity to show the “power” of school libraries as an educational and transformational “tool” /”technology” (and methodology!) that stimulates students’ creativity, collaboration etc.
Hopefully, U.S. school librarians can get their students’ involved in such a film festival. If a video showing the SL role in active, personalized, collaborative etc. learning were selected, it would help us in advocating for school libraries.
For more info visit: http://www.whitehouse.gov/filmfestival?utm_source=email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=email277-text1&utm_campaign=filmfest