How do you make three million twins? Or a three-hundred foot high robot talk to a tiny winy man? C-O-M-P-U-T-E-R T-E-C-H-N-O-L-O-G-Y.
Thanks to computer graphics and the latest digital filmmaking software, anything is possible now in the silver screen. The technological advancements in film are surely a great addition to the silver screen mystique. This technology has brought many the excitement they never dreamed of in cinema.
It has made possible the once impossible feats, angles, shots, stunts in cinema.
Results: more excitement for the audience, more money for the producers and those behind the magic of the screen, more advances in cinema.
There are endless options for the men and women behind and on the scene. Thanks to digital filmmaking technology. This is a great blessing to the human race—it gives us moments of being superhuman. In and on the screen, only of course.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Distance Learning: Learning from a Distance
Learning inside the classroom is just an option. A university is now just a click away. There are now a variety of options for learning—formal or informal. Thanks to the advent of online technology via the ubiquitous Internet. While this opens up vistas of opportunities to learn and advance intellectually, it also has deep dark areas.
The biggest so far is dishonesty. Because of lack of student and teacher interaction, the student has more leeway to be dishonest. This is not a pessimistic view of online scholars. It is just that the medium for this type of learning allows for more chances of cheating.
Furthermore, regular class attendance is no longer a must. There is great value in regular class attendance and class discussion that is face to face. The emotions involved in an online class are greatly reduced; so is student-student interaction. Social education may be sacrificed for the sake of convenient online learning.
While the Internet offers great opportunities, the learning of our children must never be solely left to online institutions. Humans learn by interacting with fellow human beings. Learning happens in interaction—socially, emotionally, intellectually, physically. And that interaction is not just in pixels of hypertext; it happens in words, sounds, images, feelings—tangible objects and not just flashing computer screens.
The biggest so far is dishonesty. Because of lack of student and teacher interaction, the student has more leeway to be dishonest. This is not a pessimistic view of online scholars. It is just that the medium for this type of learning allows for more chances of cheating.
Furthermore, regular class attendance is no longer a must. There is great value in regular class attendance and class discussion that is face to face. The emotions involved in an online class are greatly reduced; so is student-student interaction. Social education may be sacrificed for the sake of convenient online learning.
While the Internet offers great opportunities, the learning of our children must never be solely left to online institutions. Humans learn by interacting with fellow human beings. Learning happens in interaction—socially, emotionally, intellectually, physically. And that interaction is not just in pixels of hypertext; it happens in words, sounds, images, feelings—tangible objects and not just flashing computer screens.
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