2 Rolling out the red carpet
Once your groups have completed their docutubes, it is important to leave enough time to present their finished film to you and the other groups. Sharing their creations offers a great opportunity for further reflection and discussion to deepen the learning experience.
Activity 2
Watch Video 4 where Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse, a member of the RETOPEA team at the University of Leuven in Belgium, offers some suggestions on how teachers and youth leaders can promote learning through reflection at the end of a RETOPEA workshop. As you watch the film, make notes in the text box below on the kind of questions you could ask your group to encourage them to reflect on the process of making a docutube.
Transcript: Video 4
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Discussion
Karel Van Nieuwenhuyse suggests a number of questions that you could use for a discussion with your group at the end of the workshop. These include:
- What were your initial thoughts on religious toleration?
- How did you engage with the new information from the RETOPEA clippings?
- To what extent did the RETOPEA clippings or the process of making a docutube change your thinking?
- What were the three most important things you learned?
- What can we do to shape the society we live in?
IN PRACTICE: Guiding the reflection
When watching the docutubes together, ask each group what worked well, and what they would improve if they were to do it again. Reassure them that video production is a complex skill. Try to keep the focus on content that is not technical (e.g. ‘I found it really interesting when you said X – can you tell us more about that?’). And – importantly – encourage participants to reflect on what they learned about religious toleration and peace in the past and present when making their docutube.
Ask them to reflect on what they have learned from working with the RETOPEA clippings, including the need to engage with information in a critical way, as well as the value of considering different kind of sources and multiple perspectives. Also encourage participants to reflect on the experience of working with other young people to make their docutube (for example, in terms of listening to each other, understanding each other’s point of view, sharing tasks and finding solutions together).