Media Education In Tikkurila Upper Secondary School

Media education in Tikkurila Upper Secondary School, Finland

Heli Toivonen heli.toivonen@vantaa.fiTikkurilan lukio Vantaa, Finland

Festival Di’Arts, Singapore, 7 September 2009

Finnish Upper Secondary School

Students aged 16-18 Three-year programme (min. 75 courses) 47-51 compulsory courses > the rest

optional (including at least ten advanced courses)

Students compile their timetables from a list of over 1000 teaching groups in our school (or even some from other schools)

Media related courses in TILU

”Cross curricular”: media are dealt with in many subjects (Finnish language & literature, foreign languages, History, Visual Arts etc)

36 special courses but not all of them are taught every single year http://www.edu.vantaa.fi/tilu/opalvelut/ops05/viestinta.htm

a list of our media courses in Finnish

General or specialized

Optional courses Basic courses Performing arts (eg theatre) Visual arts courses (eg graphic design) Media courses (press, journalism, tv,

radio) Film (knowledge about film, film

technology as well as actually making short films and animations)

Media – part of everyday life

The idea of ”theory > exercises” is avoided Students learn most efficiently by doing things

themselves, from small tasks to bigger ones: real letters to the editor writing blogs film making film club: watching & analyzing musical and everything related to it

School magazine ”HÄLY” comes out three times a year

All school events except spring graduation: students are responsible for lights, sounds etc.

Media diploma

A special national diploma Assessment by a subject teacher in our

school and an outside expert in that field Includes writing tasks (”media

autobiography”, self evaluation, theoretical background) plus an extensive practical assignment. Some examples: A study of light and time (photography) A new appearance for the school magazine A film Light show for the school musical

”non scholae sed vitae discimus”

Closed environments on the net

Fronter (learning environment): noticeboard, materials, hand-in folders etc https://fronter.com/vantaa/

Wilma: grades, absences, tool for communication for both teachers, students and parentshttps://wilma.edu.vantaa.fi/

Language labs, computer classrooms

Four computer classrooms with internet access as well as language lab facilities for studying foreign languages: listening, pronunciation practice, practice for oral tests (especially IB

students)

Computer classroom

Thank you!

Kiitos!

Sources

Contents & photographs ©heli.toivonen@vantaa.fiExcept arial photo of the school building ©Tikkurilan

lukio, Vantaa, Finland