Frog Dissection iPad Application
Remember high school Biology where you had to dissect a frog? Now you can dissect a frog as often as you want on your iPad. Assuming you have an iPad. And assuming you want to relive high school.
Above is an instructional video on how to use the application. (Sorry, but I can not get behind the whole “app” thing. It’s application.) I saw this reported on Vegansauras and they linked it from a vegetarian author on Gizmodo, and I guess considering so many kids option out of dissecting frogs, this is a helpful application. You can learn about the frog’s anatomy without actually killing one.
I was not a vegetarian when I had to do this in high school, nor was I particularly conscious of animal welfare, but I had a hard time doing the dissecting. This seems like a useful tool.
So, is Apple donating a ton of iPads to schools, or what?
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In my high school we had pre-dissected frogs. I was so sad
In my high school, there were no frogs to cut up. However, we were supposed to dissect cow hearts. They promised us this on the first day of Biology class. Three years later, the day finally comes, and, guess what, teacher got sick and we were left with the technician who didn’t know how to dissect.
I asked if we could do it ourselves but she wouldn’t let us, so the heart just stayed in the fridge and nobody used it.
Lame.
No matter how realistic or advanced a digital dissection application is, it can never replace the act of real dissection. During real dissection you use almost all of your senses, touch, sight, smell, even in the sound of skin peeling or bones cracking. This just can’t happen with a digital application. And the more senses you evoke the more solid a memory becomes.
With that being said, I don’t think any student should be forced to do it, because for some it can be such a revolting experience. But for others, it can be cool as hell