The cinema is little more than a fad. It’s canned drama. What audiences really want to see is flesh and blood on the stage.
Charlie Chaplin
Do you have a similar opinion about training courses?
Movies
Lost and Desperate
Random ramblings that might, or might not, relate to training, learning, development, and management
I was surprised at how much this made me think, and realise things.
I go to the theatre. I go to the cinema, although less.
Why?
Not for the flesh-and-blood thing.
Cinema allows for a more flash-bang-wallop, action-packed, full of visual and auditory noise. Theatre (as a rule) less so, which I prefer.
The same could be said for some digital learning. Clicky-clicky-bling-bling.
Recently, I saw Green Book. It was the most incredible bit of drama I’ve seen in a long while, and I appreciated not having to be part of a privileged (relative) few who were able to make a theatre / day / time when it was being staged. I appreciated it being available to a much wider audience, where I could attend at a time to suit me.
If I can’t make Thursday at 2:30 when Gary is putting on that amazing critical thinking session, tough. Thank goodness he’s created a digital version.
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I has a similar thought – this was Charlie Chaplin, one of the leading lights of the new media, calling people to the old.
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Very true. Maybe he was just having a bad day, and is now forever destined to be quoted thus! I wonder how often that happens.
I hesitate to apply the Ockham’s Razor theory in this case, but maybe it really is at least partly a case of the adage: “e-learning isn’t bad; bad e-learning is bad”.
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