Sound & video are becoming a basic language everyday in business, law, science, tech, education, etc. Media education should be taught as a skill starting as young as the early elementary school ages.
The barrier to enter in filmmaking is ZERO when just about everyone has a camera in their pocket and a Youtube channel.
"You already told me you see movies in your head when you dream! Is it possible movies are assembled in your head, just like in your dreams?"
Stop Motion projects sound like a nice extra, but they may be as core to literacy as reading and writing for this generation.