Today was an interesting class as we got a look back in time at a WW2 training video on the 'Countermarch'. Incorporating the best of the educational field and Hollywood, the video elucidated necessary skills for U.S Navy personnel and also showed commanding officers (instructors) important techniques to ensure their 'students' the best opportunity to learn .
What also interested me was how it showed the severity of the time. Hollywood producers and high level educators coordinated their efforts and lended their time and resources to develop effective training videos. To me, this shows the unity that was developed during WW2 as peoples of all professional backgrounds, came together for a common goal : The success of soldiers at war. It helps to remember the contributions and sacrifices that everyone were forced to make during this extreme time of crisis.
At the end of the class, Dr. Hlynka, displayed the importance of direction. By giving differing instruction on how to observe the film to two halves of the class, Dr. Hlynka displayed how important teacher direction is to an outcome. The half that were told told to take specific notes scored well on his test, while the other half (who were told to take in the general meaning of the film) scored poorly. I guess this is no surprise.
In one way this is really impressive. In another way the efforts put into WW2 were sick. Had people used the resources and information the destruction and devastation may have been less brutal.
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I found Denis' use of the 2 differing sets of instructions similar to how the 5 instructors approached their teaching job. They didn't have any instructions and as a result 4 out of 5 did a poor job. It was seemingly a fluke that the one instructor did well enough to teach his students the proper manouever, just as it was fluke that any of the back half of the class could answer the specific questions about the people.
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