Welcome back.
It's a relatively new program for students in the Buffalo public schools,
but already they say they're seeing a lot of benefit from it.
The course of study is cinematography and as
we hear from channel two's Dave mckinley.
In this two on your side,
original students are learning a lot more than just learning how to operate a camera
on the fourth floor of Olmstead School, they're taking it up one level,
take one the fifth floor.
These high schoolers are enrolled in a cinematography class as
part of their studies in the student technology leadership program.
On this day, Junior
Adnan
is behind the camera as their productions, director of photography.
I'm gonna bring this down a little
bit.
I plan on possibly in college,
going in for business in the inside of promotions and marketing,
working with video making social media ads,
something along those lines as it becomes more important in today's age
one.
Take five.
Junior Isaiah Bullock plans to study sports medicine
but still sees value in this course.
This can really help me with my communication and my patience,
patience with other people and being open to learning
uh other people's experiences or just other people's knowledge in general.
The course now in just its second year is taught under the watchful eye of
Keziah Pearson digital media specialist for the Buffalo public Schools.
They learn leadership roles, they learn about perspective,
they learn to analyze text which is extremely important in other classes.
In many a traditional classroom,
the teacher instructs students about a subject they have no prior knowledge of.
But
as you might imagine, when it comes to technology and video, in particular,
this is a class where the teacher is learning from the students as well.
They'll go and do their own research on it
and they'll come back and tell you a thing is here,
it's something this 25 year veteran teacher encourages.
He's somewhat, it's up to you.
What do you think?
I
think we
get him in.
Did you know everybody in the class before you walked into it?
So somewhat,
I, I
didn't
really have a lot in common with them.
I think that's what the students are also finding out
people they wouldn't normally have a conversation with or,
um, you know,
they're, they're starting to work with those people
and, and enjoying enjoying their company
and even if they weren't,
so that's extremely important as you find on,
on any job you go in and you might not like your coworker, but you have to learn
to work with them. So that's also a skill that they can use in their future.
It's not reading, writing and arithmetic,
but there's much to be learned through these lenses.
Collaboration.
I
feel
like
it's a
little
so it doesn't have to be just them. But like maybe it's filler. Like
other people
laugh
attention to
detail,
working under deadlines
to
task, do the close
up first and then switch it
over
until you get it.
Take
three
and then
you have a
lot of,
in addition,
these students have also produced a series called
Teen Talk and one called Wednesday with Williams,
which is a production featuring
superintendent of schools
Tanja Williams.
And if you'd like to see some of their finished works,
follow the links contained in this story.
When you look for it on our website wgrze.com. I can only imagine what Doctor
Tanja Williams has to say when she sees the students
in control,
are they doing it? Right?
I, I don't know, you know, you may know better than I, but again, we, we have that uh
if you wanna see a few, few examples of their work, go to wgrz.com.
I know that's your favorite website. Yes, it is, of course.
But we really can tell from those students that they're getting it right.
I mean, I like how you broke it down. It's not, they're focused
on the bigger picture. Well, think about what you learn. I mean,
working with other people,
you may not like how important is that when it comes to getting a job.
How about um working under a deadline?
How about doing it over again when the boss says not good enough?
All these things are, I guess life skills. You,
you're right about that, Dave. That's a great story.
Nice original story on channel two.
Thanks for being here.