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Film or Movie Importance and Benefits

Movies can be used as an educational tool to help students learn in different ways. They allow visual learners to understand concepts without barriers and give students insight into different lives and perspectives. Watching movies in the classroom can increase memory performance by making lessons more engaging and repetitive. It can also deepen understanding by incorporating multiple teaching methods and engaging all the senses. Pairing movie viewing with traditional lessons results in "dual coding" which facilitates better comprehension and performance. Movies add fun and motivation to learning by increasing students' interest in a subject. They can also create awareness of social issues and serve as a source of inspiration by showing how people can achieve their goals.

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Film or Movie Importance and Benefits

Movies can be used as an educational tool to help students learn in different ways. They allow visual learners to understand concepts without barriers and give students insight into different lives and perspectives. Watching movies in the classroom can increase memory performance by making lessons more engaging and repetitive. It can also deepen understanding by incorporating multiple teaching methods and engaging all the senses. Pairing movie viewing with traditional lessons results in "dual coding" which facilitates better comprehension and performance. Movies add fun and motivation to learning by increasing students' interest in a subject. They can also create awareness of social issues and serve as a source of inspiration by showing how people can achieve their goals.

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Movies can be used to address additional learning styles.

Presenting information in numerous ways can be the key to


helping students understand topics. ... Sometimes, a movie can
include moments that go beyond what you are teaching in a lesson
and allow you to highlight other important topics

Importance of film viewing to students


Movies are great resource for visual learners because they enable them to
understand concepts without the barriers that hinder learning. Just like books,
movies allow students insight into the lives of different characters, how their
perspective differs and how they handle certain situations

Benefits of watching movies


Increasing memory performance

One of the ways of achieving this is by repetition. It may be boring to repeat a lesson
on a topic. However, when the same lesson like history is put in the form of a movie,
the students can easily repeat the movie without getting bored. When exams come,
the students can easily relate what they saw to the questions being asked and hence
get the answers right.

Deepens understanding

Using a single method of teaching may not make the students get a deeper
understanding of the lesson. Movies can be combined with other methods forming
multiple teaching modalities. Movies may make a certain point easy to understand
since they tend to engage all the senses which deepen one’s understanding.

Dual coding

This occurs when the students read a book or are taught in class then they watch a
movie relating to what they have been taught. This is what dual coding is all about. It
brings better and easier understanding of the lessons being taught. This, in turn,
makes them perform better.

Adds fun to learning

All work with no play makes jack a dull boy. Similarly, when the lessons lack fun,
they tend not to be understood by the students. Adding movies to the class work
makes the students entertained which eventually increase their motivation to study
that subject. It also increases their interest in the subject. For them to perform better
on that subject, they need to be interested in it.

Creates awareness

Some movies are made to raise awareness on the social issues affecting the society
as a whole. Some of the issues being addressed include economic, social and even
cultural. People need to know and appreciate such values. They also get to know the
importance and appreciate what people are going through or what they went through
to get to where they are now. Movies play a major role in the delivery of these
messages to people.

Inspiration

Inspiration makes people motivated. They will always strive to be better irrespective
of their current situations. Movies help people get inspired to be somewhere in life.
The students get to see how people can be transformed into heroes and what they
did to be where they are. It makes the students look at life from a very different
perspective knowing that everything is possible. A regular person can make a
change and be recognized by the whole world.

However, caution should be exercised since not all the movies can evoke such
positive things. The parent should always be aware of what their children are
watching. They can first review a movie before allowing their children to watch the
same. This will help them be in control. Only allow them to watch educational
movies.

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