#kinetoscope — Public Fediverse posts
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Still avoiding YouTube. But this came back into my head today.
When I was a kid there was a cool old-fashioned ice cream parlor down the street. Upstairs there was a candy counter, and some old-fashioned (REALLY old-fashioned) hand-cranked machine (either a Kinetoscope or a Mutoscope) where you could watch short silent cartoons for a nickel. Felix the Cat was my favorite.
I miss cool stuff like that!
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> My problem comes when a particular genre of equipment – usually the latest gadget or system from commercial electronics – is proposed in a monomaniacal solution to the possibilities and problems of education. Symptoms of this derangement began with #ThomasEdison’s early 20th century dream of replacing school classrooms with #Kinetoscope motion picture theaters and have continued with wave after wave of flashy technological gadgets to this day..
#MovieEducation #EdTech #TechEd