Movies and other digital media are increasingly present in classroom teaching as well as in our students’ lives. But how can we incorporate digital media into the classroom as more than just window dressing or substitutes for reading? In this talk, textbook author and film scholar David Pike provides tips for using visual media to introduce and reinforce key concepts in literature and critical thinking and to enable beginning college students to transfer passive visual literacy into classroom success. He suggests strategies for using film adaptations and other visual media to refresh and deepen students’ understanding of classic literary texts and to integrate new writing and world literature into the traditional literature or writing classroom.

Speakers

David Pike, Professor of Literature and Film, American University