I spent the past months changing my style of watching movies. My friend encouraged me to watch documentaries periodically, and I did not need to touch on any other type of movie. Continuous months of watching Arabic and foreign documentaries.
I was amazed at the amount of new information that I got to know, and I almost say that this method somewhat exceeded my attachment to methods and methods of acquiring knowledge and increasing the culture that I maintain, such as reading books, listening to seminars and lectures in various fields.
Alvin Toffler, an American writer and thinker, writes in his book Rethinking the Future about his vision of an illiterate person. He says, "The illiterate in the twenty-first century will not be the ones who do not read and write, but those who cannot learn and not learn and learn again".
This is true, as we are facing new learning methods that may make a person of great genius, broad in culture and knowledge without even entering schools, and this is because we are in front of an open source world that can educate you to the fullest extent.
Find out everything about the planet and its features in detail through the Planet Earth series, which you can spend a few hours watching!
Learn how fungi made life on our planet since the dawn of time in The Kingdom: How Fungi Made Our World and the fact that it was this kingdom that helped the human race survive.
You do not need economic and social encyclopedias to understand the principles of "Freud" and how companies and institutions have exploited them in fragmenting societies and peoples and controlling their values and concepts in support of materialism, all of this is found in CENTURY OF THE SELF.
In fact, Alvin did not lie when he said what he said. The knowledge acquired in my opinion based on the personal desire to learn lasts and remains more than the indoctrination that is erased once we are not required to claim it later.
In the end, I realized that I not only gained information and culture from watching documentaries, but also many other skills that appeared over time.
The first is to renew the feeling of surprise in science, because science "never ends", no matter how huge our culture is, but we do not know many interesting and surprising details that can affect our lives.
Watching these films gave me new perspectives to talk about and opened a window of discussion with simple methods that emerged from the visual images in my mind to transform into an exciting discussion with those around me.
Activating the mind What you noticed in the documentaries is that it gives us thoughtable information. It not only provides fixed facts, but it also subjects information to experiments and hypotheses, activating your stagnant mind in traditional patterns of thinking.
So I would like your question. Did the documentaries help you gain new information or learning skills? Do you think that educational films can be an alternative to traditional curricula in the different educational stages?