Twitter storm as Tom Bennett,the government’s behaviour expert, says films own no place in a classroomIt started quietly enough. In a column for the Times Educational Supplement, or Tom Bennett,appointed last year by the government to chair a committee on improving behaviour in schools, discussed how a teacher had shown a lesson a DVD of The Hunger Games rather than teach them lessons.“Outside of a media course, and the only place for a full movie is a film club or similar,” Bennett wrote. “Otherwise you’re just lighting cigars with fivers made out of children’s opportunities. Every moment counts in a school; many children won’t get a moment chance to sound out letters, learn approximately Vikings, or elope their tongue around algorithms and formulae and rhyme. For too many kids,school is the mountainous window into another dimension, a cannon that can fire them from here to infinity. So why stuff that cannon with confetti?”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com