El cine como herramienta de aprendizaje significativo

Abstract

The importance of cinema in the classroom today is growing, thanks to new technologies and the great access to internet in schools. The cinema allows a cultural and information exchange of various topics, allowing the study of society through time. Great stories, legends, feats, heroes, teachings and learning the films provide the viewer. Thanks to its audiovisual character in its information, the understanding of the themes are mostly pleasant and entertaining to the spectator of the seventh art. The possibility of capturing the attention and achieving motivation in the students through the cinema, are higher than the traditional resources that the teacher uses like the board, the guide, the reading, the exercise, among others, that although they have great respect and importance in the school, they do not achieve their end in a high degree of effective and significant teaching in the school. Significant learning, which is the most appropriate learning to be applied together with the cinema in the classrooms, seeks that the teacher takes into account the motivational and entertaining properties that it has, and use them in the classroom in order to achieve significant, lasting and understandable learning in the students.