Media and audio-visual technologies for teaching artistic creativity: A course for preschool and primary school teachers

The contribution presents a media-archaeological methodological approach to the device of the narrative and audio-vision for teaching the fundamentals of audio-visual culture. The activity involves the creation of short animated cartoons with sound, based on musical subjects. The originality of this approach consists in not relying on automatic technologies for the realization of the product, endowed with producer-programmed intelligence and its inscribed knowledge, but being based on the deconstruction and reworking of traditional techniques to solicit a conscious, non-immersive approach to the construction of visual and sound, and their mediation technology. The course is based on a modular type of methodology: it involves work divided into a series of successive steps, each of which can be modulated by the teacher: the complexity of the tasks will be managed by the teacher, taking into account the specific age (for example, in the experiences (for example, in our experiences with the last preschool classes, we have replaced writing with voice recording). The educational path we outline here can be successfully applied to classes between the last year of kindergarten and the entire primary school. The activity involves group work; from 2015 onwards, it was developed in teaching laboratories of the Primary Education Science degree course at the University of Turin and partly tested in various schools in the territory, teaching courses of between 40 and 50 hours each.