Week 2. Film1( Day made of glass2) and film2 (Bridging our future) #edcmooc

Both commercial  films  promote products concerning  mainly education, entertainment  and sciences. In short, what they present is how their products could become an integral part of our daily life. Both advertisements  are an example of utopia.

Regarding  sciences like medicine or engineering,  it seems like this kind of technology  may be  an ideal tool for a productive and  effective  result.  On the other hand,  as one may see in these films,  education  is visualized in a high tech quality level using transparent  tablets and  wall touch screens among others. When it comes to  education  a problem arises. 

 In my opinion  both films involve the "meta learning"  process . This is a concept in social psychology and education  and  describes  the state of "being aware of and taking control  of one's own learning". I took the following from Wikipedia.  "You can define meta learning as an awareness and understanding of the phenomenon of learning itself as opposed to subject knowledge. Implicit in this definition is the learner’s perception of the learning context, which includes knowing what the expectations of the discipline are and, more narrowly, the demands of a given learning task."

I have heard Sugata Mitra  talking about how kids may teach themselves. (I suggest that you might have a little time to watch this . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRb7_ffl2D0).  Sugata Mitra is one of the most open minded scientists I have ever heard.  However, what these two films imply is something else.  The education model in the films presupposes a  very expensive and, literally, fragile  kind of  school studies .

 On the other hand  there is a need  of an instructor highly  qualified in technology  and online  communication for this educational model. This instructor must also prepare a huge  amount of information and  recourses  to be given  in just one class. In order to  manage  all this he must have  quite some time for research; considering  that a teacher  has to be prepared for, let's say,  about  800 teaching hours per year, I do not know how might that  be possible. 

Both films have the intension to promote their products.  To make this happen, they use  the educational process as an example among other, suggesting  that  learning would be more challenging, interesting and a cool one.  However in real world there are many to be done for adapting all these very useful technologies in high schools.