Students scrutinize Frogs in implicit world
July 11th, 2008
Gone are the days of cramps in the stomach to feel and smell the cutting of the Formaldehyde soaked Frog and Pigs.
Animal right activists were very happy when they distributed the interactive software that replicates a frog dissection. The views of the members of the organization Prevention of cruelty to the animals say that dissection of the frog desensitizes the kids. It conveys to the kids we do not have any respect for the animal and they want to put an end to this practice. Animal dissection in schools is not only a waste of the various species, but can lead to the depletion of these species in the long term. The frogs that control so well the insects, which we detest landing on our lovely picnic lunches or eating up our crops, may end up being extinct. Instead of studying life, students study death by completing assignments resulting in the destruction of millions of animals every year. They say that their software the Digital Frog helps the students to overcome the repulsion faced by them and saves the school monetarily also.
On the other hand the hard core scientists are of the opinion that nothing can replicate the smell, feel and texture of cutting the frog, it’s like becoming a gardener without touching the soil. Dissection not only builds up the knowledge of the child, but also, the skill set of the child. To deny a student the opportunity to learn biology without dissection is similar to the middle ages when physicians were expected to set bones without any idea of the shape of the bone or the relation of that bone to other tissue around it. Children need to understand how animals work, they also need to understand how we got to know how animals worked. Pointing at a diagram in a book is not the same as chopping open a heart and showing it around.
But the schools overall have seen a great surge of students opting for biology classes when informed about the use of Digital Frog, this is cost saving for the school and the learners will have more takes on practice lessons as the digital image has a digital scalpel to do the incision and measures to correct your mistakes. They can absolve the complete functioning of the open body parts. The same goes for the scrutinizing of the pig.
Hence the overall start for the students to overcome the fear of using the scalpel and the stench of the formaldehyde solution of the labs is soon to be replaced world over and definitely it is a big step for prevention of cruelty towards animals. This also leads to the growth of flora and fauna of the natural reserves.