The Educational Innovation Through the Cinema: Facilitate the Acquisition of Soft Skills with the Blob

Journal title EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES
Author/s Davide Garofalo
Publishing Year 2016 Issue 2016/2
Language Italian Pages 8 P. 64-71 File size 182 KB
DOI 10.3280/ERP2016-002005
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In a society like ours, marked by a poetic of fragment, where the man is living increasingly in a citationist universe constantly updated, it must reflect on what could be the most effective tools for a better learning and improved provides acquisition of skills. The instrument on which the author dwells and focus their thoughts is the cinematographic "Blob": a set of tranches, film clips, which linked together speak directly to the learner, accompanying him on a "journey" powered by images capable to lower the ego-defensive control and prepare the mind to "iconic bouncy storm" of screen. Floating images given away from the screen, which can originate in the minds of the observers a signification personal and intimate. This is due to the fact that every story and plot transmitted by tranches of the Blob, is an open work, where the meaning is realized only through the interpretation that gives the recipient and what the observer sees of himself reflected on the screen. The author argues in his work that one of the added values that this educational tool, which the Blob, is able to give the acquisition of skills, and more generally to the learning paths, is derived precisely from its strong polysemic value. Function able to work the mind of the learner, managing to "weave" the imagination to a more rational mental dimension, being able to create a condition of involvement and essential stimulation to adult learning

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Davide Garofalo, L’innovazione didattica attraverso il cinema: favorire l’acquisizione di competenze trasversali con l’utilizzo del Blob in "EDUCATIONAL REFLECTIVE PRACTICES" 2/2016, pp 64-71, DOI: 10.3280/ERP2016-002005