Look up Albert Bandura and his social cognitive theory, from what i understood it is a theory about how people can learn through social interactions and gain cognitive skills through socialising.
Also Annabeth explained to me didactic teaching and it gave me some ideas of how I could pin the didactic teaching method against for example the social cognitive theory, social constructionism (Vigotsky) and the situational learning. We also discussed the Montessori method, how it engages children to learn what they feel like instead of having a strict teaching method, and how that could be relative to animation, as in Cbeebies has so much educational animation content children can actually learn through Montessori method by picking whatever they feel like learning about.
We also discussed about educational animations that are there to put the educational part first or to sell the merchandise, in this case I could compare Cbebbies and Milkshake, because the first one has less recognisable characters and the other one sells better so this could be one of the point where I discuss if making merchandise is better or worse- is it playing into the nag factor of children or does it get children more engaged to the content? this part seemed the most interesting to me so I will definitely try to include that into the dissertation. Another thing I was told to keep in acount is the generation of the screenagers which is a person in their teens or twenties who has an aptitude for computers and the Internet.
We also discussed the age group that my research is aimed at so for pre school learning I could analyse which cognitive psychology theory is appropriate for teaching through moving image.
Mumsnet might also be useful for gathering primary research as I could survey the parents and their opinions on educational animation and triangulate that date with interviews from teacher or people responsible for children's programming.
In the end we also discussed the flipped classroom theory and I mentioned how I discussed this theory and critiqued the didactic method as a result. Annbeth said that the flipped classroom method might be super appropriate for my focused age group and with this discussion we came up with the idea of applying the flipped classroom theory to animation and that would be how I could innovate children's programming.
In a nutshell, this tutorial was beyond beneficial, it gave me so much fuel for my dissertation. After this I feel so much more confident in my work and where it is going. Basically what I am going to do is look up all these thing we discussed during the tutorial and gather some more primary research.
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