The value of film to learn and teach.

Using film in the classroom is not simple game, not for entertainment, not
even as a more didactic instrument. The film itself has the value of being
human dramas transmitter itself. Since its inception, the stories that cinema
has affected generations of people through their arguments, their content,
their images and ideas. Cinema is popular culture, art and entertainment.
Frames and film topics can and should be brought to the classroom as a
reflective element and thus guiding behavior. In this article some guidelines
for using film in the classroom and their need and importance is based on
the orientation function. It affects the value of learning from others, the
importance of film analysis, in the introduction to the major issues is the film
and its importance in the acquisition of sensitivity to expressive values,
cognitive and creative.

What values does the current cinema

young ?. What are the models that the film conveys youth and adolescents ?.
These questions made me a few months ago in a televised debate. It is
difficult to answer them, because to understand the impact that actually
exercises film about youth and adolescence is necessary previously have
information on theater attendance of a large sample of young people from

different levels and features.

The film is a rich streaky situations
In the teaching of mainstreaming, any media, in particular film, are
necessary, to bring together elements of cohesion in other difficult situations
and circumstances.
The film has a closely linked to the last century history. It is art and
technique, language and image, document and fun, fantasy and reality. The

film is also inexhaustible source of stories and themes, creativity and

cultural aesthetics.
The value of creativity
The number, variety and quality of film images, the abundance of content and
themes, the great variation in stimuli cause brimming with opportunities to
increase creativity causing the association almost immediately ideas,
reflections, memory and data storage , enabling to increase the cognitive
baggage and therefore to relate and create new ways of thinking.