Volume : 3, Issue : 2, FEB 2017

TELEVISION AS AN EDUCATIONAL DEVICE IN THE CLASSROOM.

RENUKA BHATTACHARJEE

Abstract

A television can be accompanied with other technology based teaching aids in a classroom along with school curriculum. The researchers have found that the television can help to communicate information, idea, skills and attitudes. The Director of BBC has remarked, “Next to home and school I believe television to have a more profound influence on human race than any other medium of communication.” The television may be an effective teaching tool if its programmes are properly and suitably organized for the purpose of the students? learning. The State University of IOWA in 1932 in USA, first reported about the use of television as an instructional medium with an experimental basis. Television first came to India being popular as „Doordarshan? on 15th September, 1959 as the National Television Network of India. Some major educational television projects are like: The Secondary school television project of 1961, Delhi Agriculture Television (DATV) Project functioned as „Krishi Darshan? which was initiated on January 26, 1966, the Satellite Instructional Television Experiment (SITE), 1975, the Indian National Satellite project (INSAT), 1982. Pennsylvania State University has organised televised courses for 15,000 students after inauguration of a closed-circuit project in 1954; 4,200 students were admitted in 18 televised courses in Penn State, and the TV curriculum had been expanded for the 1957–58 academic year. Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, spent $35,000 to equip a studio and other five classrooms for receiving programs. The amount of expenditure depends on the distance in between production studio and receiving centres. The New York University spent almost $105,000 just for making and preparing a studio in one building and manage eight classrooms for reception in an another building. The Hagerstown project applies television for the enrichment of both curriculum and direct instruction.

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