Thinking About Film Book 4: Artificial Intelligence Cover

Thinking About Film Book 4: Artificial Intelligence

Are you looking for a powerful learning tool to help develop thinking skills that stick? This series draws on the medium of film as a highly effective means to do this. It introduces students to the philosophical ideas and thinkers behind a selection of modern and much-loved films. Each film is dealt with as a separate unit while also allowing for comparative study. There is a wide range of activities and worksheets for previewing, viewing and postviewing a film.

Ages: 12-15 | Pages: 56 | Code: 5478 | ISBN: 9781877536526

NZD
Add to cart
or more each
Book (physical) - A good old fashioned printed book, ideal if you like the feeling of holding it in your hand as you flip through the pages. We will ship your books from our warehouse within 1-3 days.
Ebook (PDF) - You can download, read and print with any PDF reader. Ebook PDFs are available immediately and can be accessed via your filebox or from the link we will email you once you have confirmed your purchase.
Combo (book & PDF) - Save money by getting a PDF and a physical book together, giving you the flexibility of a print and digital version at your fingertips. Printed books allow you to share and pass around the resource with your colleague. The PDF ebook is easy for you to access on the go if your print copy is with a colleague or left at school.

Orders are normally dispatched within 1 to 3 business days. Goods are shipped by New Zealand Post or by local courier, depending upon the location, with a delivery expectation of 1 to 3 business days. We will email dispatch confirmation and tracking details.

International Orders
We are happy to supply orders from outside Australia and New Zealand. Orders will be dispatched by International Air which has delivery expectations of 3-21 business days depending upon your location.

Returns
We offer a 14-day inspection with freepost return on all printed products.
Please be aware that we cannot offer an approval period or accept returns on digital resources, so orders for these resources are final.

Credit Card - Pay securely with Visa or Mastercard when you check out.

Invoice your school - Select your school when you check out. You will need a school order number.

Picture of Yvette Krohn

Yvette Krohn

Yvette Krohn has taught English for the past 18 years, first in South Africa and later in New Zealand, where her main role has been teaching high-level thinking courses, including gifted and talented education, extension and scholarship classes. She has been a faculty head of languages and an assistant principal, as well as a lecturer of communications and learning styles at Lincoln University. Passionate about thinking skills, Yvette has a particular interest in incorporating philosophy, psychology and social theory into the English curriculum, primarily through the medium of film.

Contents

Introduction4
Background information5
What is philosophy?5
What is psychology?5
What is sociology?5
How will this knowledge help my students to think?6
Thinking about WALL-E7
Plot summary7
Pre-viewing activities7
Viewing activity7
Initial post-viewing activities10
Exploring the issues: conservation18
Exploring the issues: what caused Earth's destruction in WALL-E?24
Exploring the issues: consumerism as a destructive force24
Exploring the issues: apathy as a destructive force27
Thinking about Short Circuit33
Plot summary33
Pre-viewing activities33
Viewing activity33
Initial post-viewing activities36
Exploring the issues: introducing artificial intelligence43
Exploring the issues: the philosophy of artificial intelligence49
Extending the exploration to other texts53

People like you also buy

Exploring Film: Science fiction
Exploring Film: Science fiction
Magazine Inc.
Magazine Inc.
Poem Detectives
Poem Detectives
SOLO Taxonomy in Student Inquiry - Book 1
SOLO Taxonomy in Student Inquiry - Book 1
The Ideas Factory Book 5
The Ideas Factory Book 5