VIRTUAL MADRID FOCUS ON PEDAGOGY
Abstract
This paper is concentrated on the description of the process of filmmaking education for the contemporary generation of art students from the position of the main lecturer of this subject. While using several examples, the main goal is to emphasize certain principles that may help to conduct this type of subject for art education teachers and colleagues around the world. In order to achieve such a goal, this paper uses the methodology of new media epistemology, especially inspired by the concept of Thumbelina written by the epistemologist Michel Serres who talks about this concept in relation to the generation of millennials as digital natives. However, this paper reflects the present time and uses this concept in relation to post-millennial generations of art students and future art education teachers as well. This paper describes the basic concept of this subject including the filmmaking topics that the groups of students were able to choose from in order to pass the course successfully. It also shows why it is necessary to focus on documentary filmmaking for the sake of authenticity in the era of generative AI. Further, it shows how to structure and conduct the lectures (even for the beginners). It also focuses on the necessity of the application of learning by doing principle and especially describes how to transform theoretical knowledge into practice. Eventually, it shows why it is necessary for Gen Z art education students to work with technologies in order to pass the knowledge of art education to further generations.
Mgr. Vojtěch Novák, Ph.D. is a lecturer of new media and a graduate in Semiotics and Philosophy of Communication at the Faculty of Humanities (Charles University in Prague). He works as an information specialist at the National Library of Technology in Prague where he coordinates the project of robotics (#RobotikaNTK) and also as an assistant professor at the Faculty of Education at the Charles University.