Using Feature Films to Teach Poverty
Abstract College students, who often have little experience with persons living below the poverty line, can ignore or misunderstand the experience of poverty. Feature film is one way to illustrate poverty in educational settings. Through identifying with a character, students may gain insights into the daily issues related to poverty. This article presents a review of the literature of using film to teach social science. Six specific films for teaching poverty are presented.
Teaching Undergraduate Sociology through Feature Films
This film approach is a continuation of a project that began in 1968. Initially, the goal was to improve the quality, efficiency, and effectiveness of Introductory Sociology by reshaping the mode of instruction in a manner applicable to any size class. That goal, and the film approach, has now been extended to other undergraduate sociology courses as well. The basic premises of this approach are: (a) that the lessons of undergraduate sociology are to be found in many resources other than explicitly educational materials, and (b) that contemporary feature films often carry competent sociological information and cogently express many of the basic sociology lessons in a manner of great interest to undergraduate students. The emphasis is on high-quality feature films, originally intended for entertainment. The films (or, more often, selected excerpts from them) provide the core content. Readings drawn from the sociological literature amplify and clarify the film content and tie it in with the sociological literature. The lectures continue this amplification and provide the necessary cohesion between the films. For the current Introductory Sociology course, the ratio of film to lecture time is 60:40.
Concept design of solar cell satellite dish
Solar panels are devices that consist of solar cells that convert light into electricity. They are called solar on the Sun or “sol” because the Sun is the strongest light source that can be utilized. Solar panels are often called photovoltaic cells, photovoltaic can be interpreted as “light-electricity”. Solar cells or PV cells depend on the photovoltaic effect to absorb the Sun’s energy and cause currents to flow between two opposing charged layers. The purpose of this study is to analyze the satellite dish using solar panels, so this tool is a signal search tool that uses solar energy to run to carry out its functions. As we know that many places or areas that are still often experiencing power outages so that it can hamper and interfere with community activities. Therefore, this research wants to facilitate the public, especially the current generation who need electricity every day so that when there is a power outage, the satellite dish will utilize solar energy as its main source. This research uses a satellite dish as an intermediary to produce electrical energy with the help of solar energy and is collected into a high-voltage battery in the form of electricity, so that it becomes a source of electricity.