“Next to the home and school, I believe television

to have a more profound influence on the human

race than any other medium of

communication.” EDGAR DALE

of Film, Video and TVin the Classroom

The appeal of visual media continues to make film, video and television as educational tools with high potential impact.

Why use film, video and/ or television to classroom teaching?

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Channel 1

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Angela Fisher

Going Tribal Living with Cannibals (Part

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Channel 2

Zacharei’s Final Demonstration

Transmit a wide range audio- visual materials, including still pictures, film, objects, specimens and drama.

2. Bring models of excellence to the viewer.

3. Bring the world of reality to the home and to the classroom through a live broadcast or as mediated through film or videotape.

4. Make us see and hear for ourselves worlds events as they happen.

5. Be the most believable

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6. Make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age and educational level.

7. Become the great equalizer of educational opportunity because programs can be presented over national and regional network.

8. Can give opportunity to teachers to view themselves while they teach for purposes of self-improvement.

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6. Provide us with sounds and sights not easily available even to the viewer of a real event through long shots, close ups, zoom shoots, magnification and split screen made possible by the TV camera.

7. Can be both instructive and enjoyable.

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Television and film are one-way communication device consequently, they encourage passivity.

The small screen size puts television at a disadvantage when compared with the possible size of projected motion pictures, for example.

Excessive TV viewing works against the development of the child’s ability to visualize and to be creative and imaginative, skills, that are needed in problem solving.

There is much violence in television.

How do you counteract one disadvantages to TV, film and video- development of passivity in classroom?

Basic Procedures in the Use of TV as a Supplementary Enrichment

1. Prepare the classroom. Darken the room The students should not seated too near nor

too far from the TV2. Pre-viewing Activities Set goals and expectations. Link the TV lessons with past lesson and/ or

with your students’ experiences for integration and relevance.

Set the rules while viewing. Put the film in context. Point out the key points they need to focus

on.

3. ViewingDon’t interrupt viewing by inserting cautions and announcements you forgot to give during the pre-viewing stage. It disrupts and dampens interest.Just make sure sights and sounds are clear.4. Post-viewingTo make them feel at ease begin by asking the following question:1.What do you like best in the film?2.What part of the film makes you wonder? Doubt?3.Does the film remind you of something or someone?4.What questions are you asking about the film?

5. Go to the questions you raised at the pre-viewing stage.

6. Tackle questions raised by students at the initial stage of the post-viewing discussion.

7. Ask what the students learned.8. Summarize what was learned.