Education 2015

Molesthorpe Primary Book Leicester Square Odeon for Multimedia Open Day

Molesthorpe Primary Book Leicester Square Odeon for Multimedia Open DayMolesthorpe Primary School, best known for it's Multimedia Production Company released the date for the premier of their latest title.

Headmaster
Why multimedia? I don't see what it adds. Why not just text? Why audio? Why video?

Student
I don't want to watch someone reading to me - I want to be able to read the text myself!

Govenor
If our school buys a multimedia encyclopedia are the children going to learn a lot? We bought a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica a few years ago and it doesn't seem to have made any difference at all.

Teacher
It's how a child interacts with the information that is important.

Govenor
Children creating multimedia? What about quality? Does just giving someone a camcorder turn them into Stephen Spielberg? More likely to turn into Jeremy Beadle!

Teacher
Children who can create their own multimedia demonstrate mastery of the subject matter.

Teacher
Multimedia is a new medium in itself, and is more than the sum of its parts. It thus needs a new set of criteria to assess its quality. How valid are these criteria?