What’s TV got to do with literacy? Or with Curriculum for Excellence? They watch enough telly as it is! A different perspective… Young people's appetite for screen media is huge, and seems to grow exponentially. In recent years Scottish Screen has developed models of practice in partnership with teachers, educators and film professionals that harness this passion and use it as a platform for active learning. The seminar will address a wider definition of 'texts' used in the classroom, and look at how moving image education is exceptionally well placed to deliver Curriculum for Excellence's Literacy outcomes, as well as supporting rich multi-curricular work. Moving images are ubiquitous in the lives of most twenty-first century learners, dominating a range of media, and by cultivating the skills involved in analysing, exploring and creating such texts, learning can be generated which is engaging, dynamic and highly transferable. Drawing on the wide range of Scottish Screen's moving image education programmes from early years to beyond secondary, the seminar will address how such pedagogies can be employed across the reformed Curriculum for Excellence, and how moving image education can become a sustainable practice through building capacity and skills at school, cluster, authority and national levels. Links: www.scottishscreen.com/education www.movingimageeducation.org | 