Television is considered to be an important invention of this century. Gone are the days when black and white TV first came into our houses, and we all look forward to our favorite shows and at that time it was considered just as the tool of entertainment. Today television has evolved so much that it has fundamentally transformed everyone lives. People can watch news, sports, soaps and various channels also offering children’s television series and educational programs on engineering, science, medicine and so on. Television has succeeded in providing entertainment, excitement and also one of the greatest educator tools. Also in some parts of the world television is introduced in the classroom in order to add knowledge to people in an easy and
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Today children’s are growing up surrounded by television and video. Most of the kids are introduced to television long before they enter school. There are multiple numbers of resources for education like educational programs on televisions, getting information from internet and so on. Launch of Television programs like Sesame Street or even play school have helped in acquisition of general knowledge and also improved overall cognitive knowledge among young children. Preschoolers can get learning the alphabet, nursery rhymes from TV, while grade schoolers can learn about wildlife, documentaries, scientific, cultural, cooking shows and so on. As Postman says, “It’s accurate to call television as a curriculum. A curriculum is a specially constructed information system whose purpose is to influence, teach, train, or cultivate the mind and character of the youth” (424). Likewise today teachers too make frequent use of TV, Internet and multimedia in classrooms so that students have better understanding to the topic and enter into more discussion to the content of the ideas presented. It has been seen that people generally remember about twice as much when they see and hear something , in comparison to when they only see or hear. With the help of television they can see historical event enacted, the solar system explored and novels come to life. Thus, the television can be a powerful aid to learning if used in a right …show more content…
As we know everything has its positive as well as negative effects. We as an elder’s need to make the younger generation understand and concentrate on positive impacts than negative impacts. Television does not undermine traditional classroom in fact it enhances general knowledge at early age before they start school. It helps in developing young children’s socialization, learning skills and enables them to share cultural experience with others. It prepares one with basic ideas and they don’t face major difficulty when they start school. As Postman says “Students mainly have learned that learning is a form of entertainment or more precisely that anything worth learning can take form of an entertainment” (429). Likewise if we use TV wisely, like with healthy viewing habits under parental supervision with limited screen time, no doubt it can act as a supplemental tool to educate, learn as well as entertain
Today children’s are growing up surrounded by television and video. Most of the kids are introduced to television long before they enter school. There are multiple numbers of resources for education like educational programs on televisions, getting information from internet and so on. Launch of Television programs like Sesame Street or even play school have helped in acquisition of general knowledge and also improved overall cognitive knowledge among young children. Preschoolers can get learning the alphabet, nursery rhymes from TV, while grade schoolers can learn about wildlife, documentaries, scientific, cultural, cooking shows and so on. As Postman says, “It’s accurate to call television as a curriculum. A curriculum is a specially constructed information system whose purpose is to influence, teach, train, or cultivate the mind and character of the youth” (424). Likewise today teachers too make frequent use of TV, Internet and multimedia in classrooms so that students have better understanding to the topic and enter into more discussion to the content of the ideas presented. It has been seen that people generally remember about twice as much when they see and hear something , in comparison to when they only see or hear. With the help of television they can see historical event enacted, the solar system explored and novels come to life. Thus, the television can be a powerful aid to learning if used in a right …show more content…
As we know everything has its positive as well as negative effects. We as an elder’s need to make the younger generation understand and concentrate on positive impacts than negative impacts. Television does not undermine traditional classroom in fact it enhances general knowledge at early age before they start school. It helps in developing young children’s socialization, learning skills and enables them to share cultural experience with others. It prepares one with basic ideas and they don’t face major difficulty when they start school. As Postman says “Students mainly have learned that learning is a form of entertainment or more precisely that anything worth learning can take form of an entertainment” (429). Likewise if we use TV wisely, like with healthy viewing habits under parental supervision with limited screen time, no doubt it can act as a supplemental tool to educate, learn as well as entertain