The Power of Film, Video and

TV in the

Classroom

Power of Film and TV

Limitations of Film, Video and

TV

Basic Procedures

Summing Up

The Power of Film, Video and TV

in the Classroom

Power of Film, Video and TV

Transmit a wide range of audio.

Bring models of excellence to the viewer.

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

Makes us see and hear for ourselves world events as they happen.

Power of Film, Video and TV

Be the most believable news source

Make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age and educational levels

Become a great equalizer of educational opportunity

Provide us with sounds and sights not easily available even to the viewer of a real event.

Power of Film, Video and TV

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

Can be both instructive and enjoyable.

Limitations of Film, Video and TV

Television and film are one-way communication device

Small screen size puts TV at a disadvantage when compared with the possible size of projected motion pictures

Excessive TV viewing works against the development of the child’s ability to visualize and to be creative and imaginative

There is much violence in TV

Basic Procedures in the Use of TV as a Enrichment

• Prepare the classroom-Darken the room-Students should not be seated too near nor too far from the TV

• Pre-viewing activities -set goals and expectations -link TV lesson with past lesson and/or with your

students’ experiences for integration and relevance. -Set the rules while viewing -Put the film in context

Basic Procedures in the Use of TV as a Enrichment

• Viewing -Don’t interrupt viewing by inserting cautions and announcements you forgot to give during the previewing stage. -Make sure sights and sounds are clear.

Basic Procedures in the Use of TV as a Enrichment

• Post-viewingTo make them feel at ease begin by asking: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?

Basic Procedures in the Use of TV as a Enrichment

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

• Tackle questions raced by the students at the initial stage of the post-viewing discussion.

• Ask what the students learned.• Summarize what was learned.

Basic Procedures in the Use of TV as a Enrichment

SUMMING UPThe film, video and TV are powerful instructional tools. When used appropriately and moderately, they can make the teaching-learning process more concrete, lively, colorful and interactive.However, misuse and abuse of it in the classroom and even at home has far reaching damaging effects in the development of children’s imaginative and thinking powers and sensitivity to human life.

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