Thursday, 18 September 2008

Mr Highmore task 14



"Science Museum's Making the modern workd learning modules site"


The "science Museum's Making the modern workd learning modules site" website gives information or stories about how certain people have lived and their stories of the deicsions they have made.
You can go around the site and read the information and use the simulated vision stories to find out the different parts of peoples lives. The simulated version is know as the "scenes" on the websites because they can be seen more like the movies on the persons storys.
The advantages of the simulators are that they get people to think they are in the real world. they are also easier to use and understand, sometimes reading a text and one being simulated one is very different. The simulators show the story in a different persective that this is a huge advantage to some people.
However there are some disadvantages. The first being that not everyone can understand them. Some people who do not use technology do not understand how they simulators work. Also some people just prefer for the information to be writen in text and read straight to them. Another disadvantage is that you can not stop the simulators, in this case when playing the persons story you can not stop the process.
It teachs us the importance of education and how it is important to gain an education to then further our knowledge. Some people disregard the importance of education so this may open people minds the the idea of educationals importance. This therefore makes this website very useful and informative. Some people could use this to look into their vocation. As the textbook says the stories are aimed towards the Alevel students and people who are looking into their vocation.




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