LESSON 12

The Power of Film, Video and TV in the

Classroom

• Advantages of educational television

• Disadvantages of educational television

• Pre-viewing activities

• Viewing activities

• Post-viewing activities

OVERVIEW

• Advantages of Educational Television

Transmit a wide range of audio

Bring models of excellence to the viewer

Bring the world of reality to the classroom

Can be both instructive and enjoyable

• Disadvantages of EducationalTelevision

They encourage passivity

The small screen size of the television

There is much violence in tv

• Pre-viewing Activities

Set goals and expectation

Link the past lesson with your student’s experience

Set rules while viewing

Put the film in context

• Viewing Activities

Don’t interrupt viewing by inserting cautionsand announcements

Just make sure sights and sounds clear

• Post-viewing

To make them feel ease begin by a questions:

- What do you like best in the film?

- What part of the film makes you wonder?

- Does the film reminds you something?

- Go to the questions you raised before viewing

• Post-viewing

- Tackle questions raised by the students

- Ask what students learned

- Summarize what was learned

Summing Up

The film, video and tv are powerful instruction tools.

When they used appropriately and moderately, they

can make the teaching-learning process more concrete,lively, colorful and interactive.

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