Video/Dvd in the Plumbing & Heating industry

[justlead1]

Are collages/trainers and employers using film as a training aid. When instructing individuals on the craft and knowledge needed to progress within the trade?

 

[Dotty]

what, rather then practical experience in a workshop you mean?

certainly looks like it imho........

 

[PlumbBobBob]

i think one of the trainers uses computer based scenarios instead of hands on i think its train4trade could be wrong though.

 

[Dotty]

How can people be expected to learn? These places are tantamount to legalised highwaymen!

 

[Dotty]

Not only that, would they admit culpability if someone dies through inadequate and incomplete training?

 

[turnpin]

what, rather then practical experience in a workshop you mean?

certainly looks like it imho........

I think Justlead 1 means as an additional tool along side the practical side of things when being taught the theoretical side.In my opinion some people pick up things quicker if they see something done as opposed to trying to wade through pages of instructions myself includedregards turnpin

 

[Dotty]

Don't know, don't care! my rant still stands, Turnpin mate.

So there!

lol

 

[justlead1]

No Croppie, not instead off but as well as. My interest is selfish as i am equipped to do a bit of video. But having seen what a photo can do to find a solution, as we see on this forum. I wonder if the way forward is to have video as M.I. on boilers etc, as well as wading through pages of text. After all they can be look at on a mobile phone.

 

[doitmyself]

what, rather then practical experience in a workshop you mean?

When I started my apprenticeship at Mullards (part of Philips) in the late '50s, the first thing we all did was to spend a time in the Apprentice Training School learning how to use the tools.

The first exercise was "simple"! We were given a 2 in length of ½in x 1in mild steel and told to file one end flat and square. Some of the apprentices went though several blocks trying to do that! When we had conquered one end, we had to file the other end parallel to the first - more blocks used up. We then progressed to more complicated filing exercises until ,eventually, we were let loose on the lathes, milling machines etc in the training school. After that we went to different departments at the factory, which made radio valves and semi-conductors, including the first transistors.

 

[justlead1]

Nice tale. I experienced similar tasks. i often thought, were they to grind the metal down or the person? My point being, we all have different learning styles (young or old) and video gives the opportunity to view situations that may be difficult, unsafe or to expensive to be experienced in the real world by learners.