MACHINIMA IN EDUCATION FOR SECURITY AND SAFETY

Malgorzata Gawlik-Kobylinska

Abstract: Machinima, a video created in virtual environment, reveals a great potential for education. As a video, it visualizes dangerous situations and, as a task – it enables cooperation between learners on specific solutions concerning combating threats. Those advantages predestine machinima to the role of a didactic tool and an didactic activity used in either military or civilian education and training. It must be stressed that this kind of education concerns basically Polish solutions according to which specific issues on security and safety are taught at primary and secondary schools. Education for security and safety is also in the scope of interest of Polish civil and military universities. As a result, there is a need for research in this area and development of dedicated teaching programs, which include innovative solutions. One of the examples of the use such solutions is implementation of information and communication technologies in production of teaching materials. Or treat them as a didactic environment used to trigger students’ activities. The article is of ascertainment-improvement character and it aims to analyze the role of machinima in education for security and safety, which nowadays seems to be underestimated and not fully recognized. The analysis will be supported with three case studies illustrating the implementation of machinima into curricula. Those case studies concern the activities conducted at the War Studies University in Warsaw, which were related to CreAting Machinima Empowers Live Online Language Teaching and Learning (CAMELOT)projectand the Defence Education EnhancementProgramme (DEEP) based on bilateral partnership cooperation programs between NATO and individual nations.

Keywords: machinima, education for security and safety, video, task-based approach

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2017.0616006