Role of television in education

1. MASS MEDIA
TELEVISION

2. INTRODUCTION
➔ Mass media are informal agencies of education.
➔ They are called Mass media because they impart
education to large masses simultaneously.
➔ Teacher can only select appropriate educational
programmes for their students.
➔ Mass media make the educational programmes more
universal, effective, and meaningful.

3. ➔The three functions of mass media are providing
information, socialising and mobilising.
➔Mass media includes Radio, Television,
Newspapers, Films ,etc.
➔Television and Films appeal both to the visual-
auditory senses.

4. EDUCATIONAL VALUE OF TELEVISION
★ Television is an audio-visual scientific device.It telecasts
programmes from far and wide areas of the country and
abroad.
★ The only government owned channel in malayalam is
VICTERS Educational channel.
★ Providing students from remote and rural
areas,underpriveleged and handicapped the accessibility to
valuable information affordably.

5. ★ Providing valuable materials for reference to the teacher and
thus improving their quality of instruction.
★ Broadcasting educational programmes that have direct
values to students in their academic areas.
★ Making learning interesting through quizzes.
★ Providing up to date information on topics of regional,
national and international areas.

6. ADVANTAGES OF TELEVISION
➢ Television can appeal to the senses of sight and hearing at
the same time and it makes learning more effective.
➢ It gives opportunity to observe the objects,experiments, etc.
that cannot be easily made available in classroom.
➢ It helps to provide instruction in areas where there may not
be sufficient number of schools and teachers.

7. ➢ It can provide common instruction to all the schools
over a wide area simultaneously.
➢ Create genuine interest in the topic or the subject that
is being taught.
➢ It provides a wide variety of experience, those are
quite different from the routine classroom
instruction.

8. LIMITATIONS OF TELEVISION
❏ The very familiarity of television sometimes contributes to
the habit of inattentiveness and passivity.
❏ There is dissimilarities in the intellectual background of the
learners and the television programmes doesn’t cater to it.
❏ Because of no individual contact no further action is possible
other than viewing and listening.

9. ❏ There is absence of learner participation during the
programme. It is a oneway communucation.
❏ Interruptions and distractions at the recieving end
can cause seriously impair the effectiveness of a
lesson.

10. EDUCATIONAL FILMS IN ENGLISH
❖ Ray Garner’s
➢ Ancient World:Egypt (1954)
➢ Greece:The Golden Age(1936)
❖ Albert Lamorisse’s
➢ The Red Balloon(1956)
❖ Trisha Das’s
➢ Fiddlers on the Thatch

11. EDUCATIONAL FILMS IN MALAYALAM
➢Shanil Muhammed’s
○ Philips and the Monkey Pen
➢Padmarajan’s
○ Koodevide

12. CONCLUSION
➔Television has become an important part of our
daily life.
➔It has both advatages and disadvantages.
➔Television is not only a source of entertainment
and advertisements but also an impressive teaching
aid of education.

13. THANK YOU