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THE POWER OF FILM, VIDEO

AND TV IN THE CLASSROOM


Introduction
The appeal of visual media continues to make film, video and
television as educational tools with high potential impact.
They are now more accessible and less cumbersome to use. Let
us take advantage on them in the classroom.
ABSTRACTION
The film, the video and TV are indeed very powerful. Dale (1965) says, they can:
Transmit a wide range audio- visual materials, including still pictures, film, objects,

specimens and drama.


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.


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

Be the most believable
Make some programs understandable
and appealing to a wide variety of age
and educational level.
Become the great equalizer of
educational opportunity because
programs can be presented over national
and regional network.
Can give opportunity to teachers to view
themselves while they teach for purposes
of self-improvement.
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.
Can be both instructive and enjoyable.
Limitations
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 devt of
the childs ability to visualize and to be creative
and imaginative, skills, that are needed in
problem solving.
There is much violence in tv.
Application
1. How do you counteract one
disadvantages to tv, film and video-
development of passivity in classroom?
2. Go over your RBEC. Find out which
lessons can be taught with the tv.
3. If Muhammad cant go to the mountain,
bring the mountain to Muhammad. come
up with an analogy to show the power of
tv to bring reality to the home or to the
school e.g. If the class cant go to the sea,
bring the sea t
BASIC PROCEDURES IN
THE USE OF TV AS A
SUPPLEMENTARY
ENRICHMENT

For enrichment of the lesson with


the use ofTV, we have to do the
following:
1. Prepare the classroom.
. Darken the room

. The students should not seated too near nor


too far from the TV.
2. 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. Viewing
Dont 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-viewing
To 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.

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