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Schools are always looking for ways that teachers can teach without doing work and students can learn without doing work, and computers are the magic tool that
by skookumchuck 10y ago
Schools are always looking for ways that teachers can teach without doing work and students can learn without doing work, and computers are the magic tool that promises to do that.
It's like using a forklift to raise the barbell. Sure, the barbell goes up, but you don't get any stronger.
- ptaipale 10y agoYes. However, if your goal is to learn to lift up large masses, learning to operate a forklift is a good thing to do. (I cannot write about a "forklift operator" without asking if you have seen this German "educational" film. It starts slowly, but... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oB6DN5dYWo )
- andrewflnr 10y ago... but gets gory. I mean, just-above-Monty-Python level gore, but still maybe not what you're expecting.
- ptaipale 10y agoWell, you spoiled it, but that's it, the tone change from dull German workplace education film to a full Monty-Pythonesque parody creeps in so that you don't really know when it exactly set in.
- kriro 10y agoNo need to put the educational in "". It was originally a parody of the edu-videos (the narrator is famous for doing "Der 7. Sinn" which is a serious edu-series) but is actually used quite often as an introduction to the safety stuff for a fork lift license. It's not an official video or anything but in practice you have ab out a 50% shot of watching that movie from anecdotal evidence.
- ptaipale 10y agoSo, it started out as a parody of educational videos, and became an actual educational video? Anyway, I appreciate it. Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour?
- sundvor 10y agoThat escalated quickly enough. :))