‘Following on from the earlier blog about the Festival of Dangerous Ideas (FODI), we also participated by hosting our own ‘dangerous’ event. We all know the power behind moving images. Anyone who’s been moved to tears by a movie or participated in plot related arguments after a trip to the cinema will understand how caught up we can get in the different realities presented to us through moving image. With that in mind we asked ourselves why moving image is so underused in education? Is moving image seen as a ‘soft option’? Demonised by its association with media studies?
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We wanted to challenge that idea and so our own Dangerous Idea was born. Moving Image as a vehicle for knowledge creation! But what knowledge could we create?’