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Tri Continental Film Festival 2008
July 25 - 30, 2008
Goa, India
http://www.moviesgoa.org/page/tri_continental/
http://www.moviesgoa.org/tricon/schedule_2008.pdf
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This is a very inspiring anecdote. A minor point, however, is that the
description of visual learning given in it is not very accurate. Visual
learning is generally understood to mean making use of pictures and graphs in
the learning process, and visualizing words, descriptions, and the
concepts/events being described. The latter process, in particular, does not
make use of the eyes. It bypasses the eyes and directly engages the part of the
brain that processes visual information. So the camera-like mechanism of the
eyes themselves does not play much of a role in visual learning. One can
visualize quite well, indeed better, with eyes closed. One would not learn
anything visually if one is not attentive and one does not make use of one's
imagination, no matter how long one exposes a book to one's wide open eyes.
Cheers,
Santosh
--- On Mon, 7/28/08, Tony de Sa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> As a student in school, while learning the chapter
> 'light' in school, her
> teacher had emphasised that the human eye works like a
> camera. Just as a
> camera records all that it is made to 'see', so
> does the human eye. It only
> depends on the amount of 'exposure' - the time that
> we give to the matter we
> are studying. She decided to put this principle to test. It
> was tough
> initially. You can't just decide to try this principle
> and expect it to
> work. If you persist, eventually over a period of time, you
> will succeed.
> This is called 'visual learning'. In course of
> time, with a lot of trial and
> error, she found that it worked.
>
