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Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Teaching fire safety with multimedia | Using video to teach kids fire safety lessons
SVC: "“Before we even considered things like technical components and equipment, we were thinking, how do we keep it all screwed down in one piece?”"
5 comments:
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The idea is spectacular. Its an interactive, physical video game. However, I'm not sure how much the kids are actaully soaking in...To them, its probably all just one big game. I'm not sure if they will actually be able to implement the skills learned at this exhibit, but some basic ideas are surely to strike home. My bet is, this is one great way of entertaining kids in the afternoon, but I doubt they will learn and retain everything they need to know about basic fire safety. Its a nice stab at it,though.
The idea of educational fun has obviously been around for awhile and it has taken place in ways such as these. By actually interacting,children will tend to learn more than by sitting and watching. They may not realize some of the knowledge they are getting but that is why it is fun to them. Taking kids minds off the fact that they are learning, I think, is one of the most effective ways to help them learn.
This seems like a better way of teaching fire safety than the way I was taught. They put me in a trailer, told me it was on fire, and if I didn't get out in 30 seconds, I failed and had been burned alive. Needless to say, I burned alive. That scared me for years.
It's great to see a project working with it's budget rather than against. Instead of lamenting what they lacked, the designers created a successful product with what they had and it turned out beautifully. It's also great to see that people are putting so much effort and thought into educational tools as well as into those used solely for entertainment.
i always thought we could do a terrific set of videos using examples from here at cmu drama. some kind of instructional video for what is the pino now in the curriculim. There are many chances to get footage of the right .... and many more chances to capture the wrong way to do things. we could edit it all together and use it for internal training. The only problem of course, is how fast that stuff gets dated...and then its no longer helpful.
5 comments:
The idea is spectacular. Its an interactive, physical video game. However, I'm not sure how much the kids are actaully soaking in...To them, its probably all just one big game. I'm not sure if they will actually be able to implement the skills learned at this exhibit, but some basic ideas are surely to strike home. My bet is, this is one great way of entertaining kids in the afternoon, but I doubt they will learn and retain everything they need to know about basic fire safety. Its a nice stab at it,though.
The idea of educational fun has obviously been around for awhile and it has taken place in ways such as these. By actually interacting,children will tend to learn more than by sitting and watching. They may not realize some of the knowledge they are getting but that is why it is fun to them. Taking kids minds off the fact that they are learning, I think, is one of the most effective ways to help them learn.
This seems like a better way of teaching fire safety than the way I was taught. They put me in a trailer, told me it was on fire, and if I didn't get out in 30 seconds, I failed and had been burned alive. Needless to say, I burned alive. That scared me for years.
It's great to see a project working with it's budget rather than against. Instead of lamenting what they lacked, the designers created a successful product with what they had and it turned out beautifully. It's also great to see that people are putting so much effort and thought into educational tools as well as into those used solely for entertainment.
-Samantha Englender
i always thought we could do a terrific set of videos using examples from here at cmu drama. some kind of instructional video for what is the pino now in the curriculim. There are many chances to get footage of the right .... and many more chances to capture the wrong way to do things. we could edit it all together and use it for internal training. The only problem of course, is how fast that stuff gets dated...and then its no longer helpful.
Mr. Barton
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