The click words

The three levels represented at Lycée Koeberlé (Second, First, Terminale) have already benefited from this educational tool in the approach to the photographic medium. Everyone is fond of it and liked this educational approach, finding it of particular interest from the point of view of vocabulary and the finesse of the analysis that the game allows to achieve.
As a middle school visual arts teacher (Collège Molière de Colmar), I was also able to test this game with students at the Fourth and Third levels: the interest is also very strong there, particularly in the development of vocabulary and of the observation that a student can make of a photograph. It is interesting to measure the gap between an analysis made by the student before knowing the game and after having used it to evaluate the positive impact of this tool.

Just like in society, living together is at PLAY in Les Mots du Clic. This educational tool for photographic image criticism encourages, in a fun way, argumentative speech at the heart of the citizen debate between spectators: it encourages people to take a step aside and (re)become the author of their thoughts. The whole point then lies in the confrontation of ideas and the acceptance of the other in decision-making. This game is a facilitator for audiences who do not, or rarely, speak (FLE audiences in particular).

Using the tool allows players to take the time to engage with the image and thus share their impressions in a caring and protected environment. The game LES MOTS DU CLIC is the only game which, to my knowledge, allows you to work on soft skills (discussion, listening, debate, etc.) by mixing image analysis.

In the class, the children form small groups, each around a table. All eyes converge on a photograph that has just been placed there. We turn it around, we comment on it, a little absently. Disinterest threatens. Like all of us, these children are daily bombarded with images, images which often impose themselves on them, which disappear as they appeared, without the question of their understanding being able to be asked. But around this photograph placed on the table, the first cards of the LES MOTS DU CLIC game are spread out. We read them, we comment on them, we manipulate them. We argue, we get involved in the game. Over the course of the cards and the minutes, our perspective is renewed, enriched by that of others, and the dialogue has developed. On the table, the photography is no longer quite the same. Today we looked at a photograph. Really. And we can tell you about it!