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Tetrad of Three Dimensional Television (3-D TV) – Tim Weaver EDUC-7108
Enhancement
What
does 3-D TV enhance (Hempell, 1996)?The viewing of television is more realistic than ever before with an
improved three dimensional realistic field for visuals with surround-sound.
Retrieval
What
does 3-D TV retrieve that had earlier been obsolesced (Hempell, 1996)?Home theatre-like feel provides economic
way for friends and family to enjoy movies.Getting together to go to the movies can be done right in the living
room.
Reversal
What will 3-D TV turn into when
pushed to limits of potential (Hempell, 1996)? Normal television watching
will consist of choices between 3-D and standard HDTV.Eventually, HDTV falls to 3-D and 3-D as will
fall to holographic television.
Obsolescence
What will 3-D TV erode to be obsolete (Hempell,
1996)?HDTV will eventually fall to
obsolescence as will 3-D with future improvements of 3-D and eventually
holographic television.
There are no doubts
that television has certainly evolved into something quite spectacular since conception
in the late 1920’s and early 1930’s.In
just over 80 years, the technology has changed at incredible length to the
advancements TV offers today.The
transition from analog to digital formatting around the turn of the new millennium
to what is now emerged and standardized High-Definition Television (HDTV) offers
us TV like never before.On the emerging
end of TV today is 3-D imaging and promises of realism like never before.Early reports claim from spectators this
technology can convince the viewer objects exist outside of the flat screen
(Digital Trends, 2012).The tetrad for
3-D TV relays the representation of the emerging technology and what it has improved,
retrieved, reversed, and relationships to obsolescence.Basically, 3-D TV is set to most likely
become popular and standardized and eventually replace HDTV.A home-theatre will bring back economically
attractive movie or entertainment nights to family/friends that used to
frequent actual movie theatres.Eventually,
3-D TV is challenged by holographic imaging and eventually pushed aside to make
room for the futuristic medium.
Mr Scott Puopolo elaborates more on the future of television.
As an interim teacher
that is employed by as many as 10 different K-12 school districts for the last
few years, I have noticed that a few have switched over to the Blackboard (Bb)
Learning Management System (LMS) in their institutions.Using Bb at Walden U. is a new venture for me
and is considered an emerging technology.For the teachers and students at the institutions using Bb, it has
emerged as the prominent LMS for everyday life in their learning environments
which makes it an already emerged technology.Beyond hardware, it is software and software services that are actually
the growth industry in technology (Soloway, n.d.) and Bb seems to be leading
the surge.
I have noticed so far
that most teachers only use the software for managing their own classes, but it
can do so much more.Bb is capable of helping
institutional clients use the software to reach stakeholders in immediate, personalized,
and innovative ways (Blackboard, 2012).Most teachers I have noticed so far use it primarily for course/student
management and caregiver correspondence.This is certainly nice for students who can check their grades anytime
throughout the course.Staying current
on their own progress certainly helps them stay on task and manage themselves.For caregivers, it meets the social needs of
following along with student progress so adjustments can be made on the fly
rather than after the summative grade of the course.What Bb provides so far is certainly very
beneficial and necessary, but it is capable of so much more.An example is Bb offers more engaging,
interactive, individualized learning experiences (2012) like discussion, collaboration,
and mobile services for online usability.It seems so far there is not much interest in this at the K-12 levels of
education.
Of course like any
newly introduced technology, problems and challenges have surfaced.The primary problem focuses on instructional
training.As Bb access becomes more and
more widespread, it would certainly be wise for educational systems to take
aggressive actions in staff development.This is necessary for instructors to improve their pedagogy and take
advantage of online tools that are available for immediate use (Thornburg,
2009).Though I have noticed that
teachers are quite familiar with what Bb offers in course management, they look
at me quite puzzled when I mention other possibilities it offers for student
interactivity and knowledge building.Now with many students carrying mobile devices, the deeper question is
how educational systems, with whatever LMS they choose to implement, will
respond to students who use these powerful devices (2009).The Bb technology is relatively sound for now
and the capabilities outnumber K-12 teacher capabilities in how to effectively
use it in a non-traditional sense.To
make use of the software technology in a more engaging sense, online research,
communication, and collaboration channels need to be opened of which Bb is
capable of doing so.As long as
legislation keeps public schools constrained with traditional antics for
learning, I do not see K-12 teachers going out of their ways to explore
this.It is a “little” thing called
American educational reform and until this happens, revelations in new software
technology will remain slow-moving, at least in that sector of education.
