Television as a Teaching Tool
In the world we are living in today there are a great many people who
will tell you televisions are an amazing teaching tool, or that they
bring quality entertainment to millions of people around the world.
This is quite simply a lie. Television is no 'great teacher' or 'show
stopper', but an evil machine, an evil mind-numbing machine.
You only need to look at the effects that Logi-biards contraption has
on people, to see what I mean.
They sit in front of trashy soap operas, with their far-fetched
storylines and sub standard acting, stuffing junk food into their
faces. These 'Tele-Addicts' will, with no hesitation, watch hours upon
hours of programmes, wasting evening after evening in front of their
'goggle boxes'. From the very first moment they turn on their
televisions, they turn off their brains and become transfixed on the
screen. They begin to plan their lives around the television schedule;
the T.V Guide has become their bible. If you observe someone watching
television it's easy to see that they have turned off their body and
minds except for their hands. Their hands are now on autopilot used on
the odd occasion to operate the remote or stuff junk food in to their
faces. You could set off a bomb in the same room with them and I doubt
they'd notice, as long as it doesn't interrupt the programme they were
staring at they couldn't care.
There are actually only two things you can do to distract an addict
from their televisions and just prey to God you don't do them! Well
what are these two 'Sins' of which I speak? Standing in front of the
screen and touching the remote control. Quite trivial things you may
think, but if you dare to commit either one of these crimes against
television you will receive the same response. You'll be hit
instantaneously with a tidal wave of foul language and violent
gestures. It's a totally primal response, it as if evolution never
took place.
often targets of harassment and criticism. Today few follow in the footsteps of the original
being faces. In the end, it is up to each of us to decide what answers to these
Although people say many things out of realization that those words could harm others everyone should always be careful in what he/she says because someone else could misunderstand and commit a crime. Many of mankind cannot stand things people say and end up doing things which do not have good outcomes. Some people’s anger or hate may make them hurt another emotionally or physically. Stating an idea without an explanation may be misunderstood by someone else and thought of in a different matter. Foolish human beings like Napoleon get their friends against others when someone does something that does not make him/her happy. There are many people out there, like for example teenagers, get into fights becau...
phonies, but mostly people who have done better than he has in life who he
As I read Television as a teacher written by Neil postman, His main argument throughout the article is that television isn’t a good or effective way to use education, and he describes how it’s actually worst for us and were not learning the full purpose of education and learning by watching tv. His main example was Sesame Street, and how children sit in front of a television for hours watching what they call education television and claiming they get knowledge from it but they're getting no social interaction by watching it. Also, Neil postman makes excellent points by comparing education television to a real classroom, saying how a classroom has social interaction, the ability to ask a teacher question, development of language, and it’s a
have a steady job but they just don't have any real wealth. In fact people who
The most predominant feature of the human face is eyes. When talking to a person our eyes meet there eyes; the way that people identify each other is through eyes; eyes even have the power to communicate on its own. Eliezer identified people buy there eyes and knew their emotions through their eyes. “Across the aisle, a beautiful women with dark hair and dreamy eyes. I had
The Effect of Television In The Age of Missing Information Bill McKibben, in his book The Age of Missing Information, explores the impact of television on modern cultures both in America and around the world. In the book McKibben carries out an experiment; he watches the entire television broadcast of 93 separate cable channels for one entire day. In all McKibben viewed 24 hours of programming from 93 separate cable stations, that is more than 2,200 hours of television. His purpose in this formidable undertaking was to determine how much actual information that was relevant to real life he could glean from a day of television broadcasting. McKibben also spent a day camping alone on a mountain near his home.
than a handful of people. Unfortunately as a society we have been witness to several on such a level.
are human too and that some of them do get greedy and selfish? A lot of
Without a doubt, television is the central and principal form of communication in many people’s lives. This form is most often exposed to a child who instantly becomes accustomed to its presence. Children are televisions largest audience, as Morris shows, “Children aged two to five look at the TV tube on an average of 28.4 hours a week; those between the ages of six and eleven average 23.6 hours a week”. Television has played an important role in many children’s lives and its viewing has been a favorite activity for many of them. The effects of television on children have been disputed. Some people have said that viewing time has a negative impact on children. Other people, however, feel that the early educational television productions for children help tehm learn.
Our generation has been raised in a technological advanced world and there has been definite controversy over many of these innovations that this new culture has brought. An innovation that has troubled the youth of America for many years is television. Although there is no certainty to eliminate this 'plug-in drug,'; there are many ways to control and monitor your television as a parent.
Media literacy is defined as "the ability to access, analyze, evaluate, and communicate messages in a variety of forms" (Know TV). In more practical terms, media literacy means questioning the media and interpreting its many messages accordingly. Students are exposed to mass quantities of media on a daily basis. They watch television and movies, read books, newspapers, and magazines, listen to music, and in more recent years explore the Internet. This extreme exposure to media outlets leads to the need for education about the media. Media literacy is one way to help educate students about issues in which they are already actively engaged. Media literacy should be implemented into school curriculums as a beneficial learning tool for all students.
Benefits of watching television at the young age would be that children’s social skill, emotional skill and creativity can be improved by watching the talk shows; it is proved by a study. For example, Children can learn how to communicate with other people and how to react properly when they are asked to response. In addition, TV shows such as C.S.I Miami, Criminal Minds and Bones can teach children how to think logically and stragically. Although books can transfer the knowledge to the young generations, but it has limitations that certain facial expressions and body languages cannot be transferred by few words. Furthermore, the beautiful images of the nature on the tv screen can let the children to take a long travel from their home to the deep in the ocean, top of Mt.Everest or middle of Sahara the dessert.
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