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Publication Date: 2021
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Bringing Education to Life with a Drive-In Cinema
Adkins, Wesley
Childhood Education, v97 n4 p72-76 2021
The main problem for teachers working with students who have various disadvantages is that many of them lack extrinsic motivation and they can get discouraged very easily as they hate feeling less capable than their peers. As a film enthusiast, the author appllied and won an Education Innovation Teacher Challenge grant to run a film-related project that incorporated all areas of education standards. His idea was to create the Ewa Beach (Hawaii) Drive-In Cinema, employing project-based learning to harness his students' varied interests. The goal was to help students develop diverse skills, from using computer science to calculate the projector's pitch onto the screen to developing business plans and creating a computer app.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Special Needs Students, Films, Active Learning, Student Projects, Learner Engagement, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Achievement
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Hawaii
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