The Power of Film Video & TV in Classroom
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
The film, the video and tv are indeed very powerful. Dale (1965) says, they can:
Ø Transmit a wide range audio- visual materials, including still pictures, film, objects, specimens and drama.
Ø Bring models of excellence to the viewer.
Ø Bring the world of reality to the home and to the classroom through a live broadcast or as mediated through film or videotape.
Ø Make us see and hear for ourselves worlds events as they happen.
Ø Be the most believable
Ø Make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age and educational level.
Ø Become the great equalizer of educational opportunity because programs can be presented over national and regional network.
Ø Can give opportunity to teachers to view themselves while they teach for purposes of self-improvement.
Ø 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.
Ø Can be both instructive and enjoyable
Limitations
v Television and film are one-way communication device consequently, they encourage passivity.
v The small screen size puts television at a disadvantage when compared with the possible size of projected motion pictures, for example.
v Excessive tv viewing works against the dev’t of the child’s ability to visualize and to be creative and imaginative, skills, that are needed in problem solving.
v There is much violence in tv.
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