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TELEVISION –

THE ‘NEW SAVIOUR’

Chapter 8

Nor Hanisha Mohamed Sherif (1517230)Maftuna Abdurakhmonova (1434900)Nurul Hazira Mohd Aris (1511720)Siti Ummairah Yusof (1514174)

• THE HISTORY

• USAGE• CLOSURE

• THE CONTENT• TEACHING MATERIALS

• THE TECHNOLOGY

THE HISTORY

LET’S GO

1950s

Television reached the level where it could be seen as

having the capacity to change teaching.

All that was needed was the production of a set of

programs to cover the school curriculum.

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Have more impact than any teacher

Overcome the teacher shortage

TELEVISION

INDUSTRY

GOVERNMENT

TERTIARY EDUCATION

There were two things that fuelled the belief in the

immense potential of educational television.

SPUTNIK

The US perception that its school system was holding the country

back.

The US made its most notable use of educational

television in American Samoa.

Mid 1970s

lessons per day were broadcasted in Western

Samoa.

60

1980

The experiment had all but come to an end.

THE TECHNOLOGY

LET’S GO

BLACK AND

WHITE

EXPENSIVEMost schools could only

afford ONE or TWO$ $$

NOVELTYnew origin

al

unusual

PROBLEMATIC

TV RECEPTIONparticularly outside themajor urban centres

schools had only oneaerial and few outlets

at the most

MAJOR PROBLEM

for Secondary School

NOfacility to record

broadcasts

1960s

schools still could notafford the VTR

THE CONTENT

LET’S GO

Greater use of

mainstream broadcasts

1969 Lunar Landing

Some of the programmes in early years

TEACHING MATERIALS

LET’S GO

BUT Teachers were not allowed to use TV in a creative way.

The production cost was prohibitive.

Teacher training does not exist.

TV Enrich Teaching

USAGE

LET’S GO

Larry Cuban

Roughly only 2% of the teachers in schools (in the US)

were using television when I entered the room.

http://www.videokarma.org/showthread.php?t=249499

“In around 1964, we had

TVs in each classroom. They were

rarely used, maybe once a

year.”

“Here's TV in the classroom 1962. My 6th grade class.”

Televisions were hardly ever used before the advent of inexpensive video recorders.

The use was usually supplementary/additional.

The focus was to drill in lessons for tests, and TV was just consuming time.

Educational television

A different model

of teachin

g

Radio > TV

No! TVs are

inappropriate!

1970sthe focus was on :

analysis of the

television’s use and form

Mass media

English communicat

ions programs

Video producti

on

Few produce teaching materials

Research: Teaching with new medium do not

show improvement of

student performances

“Within a decade, all the high-profile

educational television projects

had come to an end.”

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Technology