Animation As A Medium Of Education

Imagine you’re an 11-year-old kid, sitting at school and chewing on your pencil, gazing out the window and mindlessly listening to the teacher ranting on about World War II or what have you. Now, imagine you’re the same 11-year-old kid sitting in a classroom where you and your peers are recreating World War II through some stellar animation. Which do you think you’d prefer? Which would grab your attention? Which would invoke that desire to learn and have fun all at the same time?

Surely, your answer is quite obvious –as would be everyone’s! And that’s exactly why a lot of people these days have been advocating the inculcation of animation in the education system. It’ll be like getting an animation course and a history lesson all rolled into one! 

But all fun and games aside, the education system as a whole must come to realise the sheer benefits of animation as medium of education. Let’s take a quick look at how using animation in the classroom can be a highly effective tool of learning.

•    Communication: Whether it’s textual, verbal or visual, creating animation will allow a student to better their communication skills by putting across their ideas, understandings and concepts in a creative fashion.

•    Story telling: You don’t need to go to Animation Institutes In Delhi to learn the art of story telling through animation! Students will be able to form coherent and impelling stories and convey their ideas and philosophies by using exciting and challenging animation tools.

•    Facilitate positive peer interaction: By introducing animation as a medium of education, students will learn to collaborate in creating their works, and also learn presentation skills that will lead to the creation of a classroom environment that will stimulate positive peer interaction.

•    Creativity and logical thinking: Animation, being an art, will allow students to explore their creativity and be innovative, which will lead to not only aesthetic growth but also work on the intellect and cognitive and emotional aspects of their personality through novel approaches at problem solving etc.

•    Artistic qualities will naturally enhance learning in various other content areas –such as history, literature, etc.