Linda Flanders will be presenting "The Movie Making Process: An Education Prevention Program for 21st Century Learning" at the at the 2009 Youth Intervention Conference on Oct. 27-28 in St. Paul.
The demands of living in a fast-paced and rapidly evolving 21st Century are staggering. Communities are dealing with global issues at the local level. Technological skills, creative thinking and innovation are areas that the United States used to excel in; now we are falling dangerously behind. The national high school drop out rate is 35% and the 50 largest cities in the U.S. show a staggering 48% high school dropout rate. (Cities in Crisis, 2008) We are the most addicted country in the world and hold the record for the most incarcerations per capita of any other country. (2008 Pew Center Report)
What happened and what are we going to do about it?
The entertainment industry and the gaming designers are increasingly aware of games’ power to influence neural pathway formation. (Scientific American, February 2009) Now, communities can compete for their kids’ attention through the process of making a community movie; fusing together human development, education, activism and future job skills. We plan to show you how during a presentation at this year’s YIPA conference. First by showing the kids the excitement, creativity and positive attention they can get from being part of the process and then we’ll show the adults how a community can put an entire production together quickly and inexpensively; then use the finished product as a continuous learning tool.
Our most complete replicable community movie project that’s designed as a complete education and prevention program is The Northern Lights; Shining The Light on the Meth-edemic. While it educates about Meth specifically, it also covers addiction in general. It offers skill building and alternative activities; both are needed for any prevention program to work. And, it teaches creative and technological skills needed for the future. We’ll show clips of this production as part of the presentation.
Why It Works:
We’re all born with some level of natural intelligence, yet we may or not come into a safe and nurturing environment, or we might suffer from an early childhood trauma, but we ALL must navigate through the core processes of “human” development to emotionally mature. (Greenspan, S. 1997)
- We must attach to another human being
- We must learn to communicate our wants and needs
- We need to experience a range of emotions and “express” those emotions
- We must learn limits and boundaries
The window for learning these things is birth to five. What happens when we miss these developmental levels? We can end up apathetic or rage filled, treating others as things. We don’t communicate our wants and needs to others; not even knowing them ourselves. We can feel feelings of anger and fear, but they don’t get balanced out with feelings of love, peace and happiness. We don’t learn boundaries of basic common decency; we don’t learn self-control and the brain wires us up in a way that prevents learning from cause and effect. That is human development, and it has global implications. We can also end up with learning disabilities that create havoc for us in traditional public education. This has national implications on all the above statistics.
We designed “The Movie Making Process” to help fill this gap. Come visit our presentation and we’ll show you how. We use Multiple Intelligence Theory, experiential learning and the latest in neuroscience: The Power of Paying Attention.
The Movie Making Process Youtube Clip
More information on the website at www.taprootinc.com
Or, Linda Flanders at taproot@redwing.net
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