[Frameworks] query for those who teach filmmaking

[Aaron F. Ross]

It's true, professors with tenure can ignore the changing times. 
There's no accountability and no consequences, so tenured professors 
can be rigid, inflexible, and anachronistic, and get away with it. 
But of course, that is doing the students a disservice. There's a 
huge disconnect between academia and the real world, and young people know it.

In a way, the decline of tenure and the expansion of adjunct hires is 
good for students. It's bad from a labor perspective, but at least it 
keeps fresh blood coming in. Adjuncts have to continually 
prove/improve themselves, and can't rest on their laurels. Ever.

Regarding technology, I'm a selective adopter. Just because something 
is new does not make it good. But the corollary to this is that just 
because something is familiar does not make it good, either. We all 
must think critically about technology if we are to be effective 
educators, makers, and even consumers. Control the tools, or they 
will control you.

The fresco analogy unintentionally makes the opposite point. Art 
schools don't teach fresco painting anymore, except as an extremely 
specialist subject. Oil painting is a widely adopted technique that 
has immediate application across the board. Fresco painting is, for 
the most part, a dead art. So, in fact, students should not be 
required to learn it.

If you want to piss off students, wasting their time and money, then 
by all means, make them learn some specialized, anachronistic subject 
that has little or no application in the real world.

Aaron



At 4/23/2014, you wrote:
>But you _can_ reject the technology.  Not at all times, nor 
>throughout the whole program.  But, just because oil painting exists 
>does not mean that art students shouldn't learn how to make frescos. 
>--scott _______________________________________________ FrameWorks 
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