What Makes Us Tick

I mention in the "Director's Comments" at the end of my Film Project that students never really learn until they are engaged and they never really listen until they are compelled to hear. I would like to make an attempt to connect these comments with the comments made in my previous blog posting about making an emotional impact and tugging at the heart. We engage students by presenting lessons in a manner that interests them. Much depends on the means of delivery, such as humor or playacting, or the use of technology, or getting them out of their seats and involoving them in the process. But we must engage them in the learning process by making it somehow meaningful to them. Film directors create compelling experiences through understanding what motivates and inspires their audience. It is our task as educators, if we wish to create compelling experiences in the educational setting, to understand what makes our students tick.