So on Saturday I did my first ever pitch for How Can I Do That? a children's educational television program with an integrated, thematic curriculum. The theme of the program is discovery learning--focusing on the process of learning, both deductive and inductive, and a variety of subjects are integrated into this theme. The content of the program will be driven largely from local museums, historical sites, factories and businesses, etc. I don't want to say too much more about the show on here, but I think my idea was well received. I had one professor who came back several times later that day and said, "That might just take off." I hope so.
For this project I basically created a show proposal as I've been teaching my students to do for years in Video I. I included relevant learning theories and a design model for the curriculum (though this area was weak in my presentation). I talked about how Gardners's MI theory and Kolb's learning inventories would be used in casting. I also requested ideas for show topics and funding sources and got several for the former.
Posted by cmwillis at April 23, 2006 04:57 PM | TrackBack