Television can be an effective educational tool when used properly. It allows visual and auditory learning, providing access to information and experiences that may not be available in a traditional classroom. However, television also has limitations like a lack of interactivity and inability to cater to varying learner backgrounds. While entertaining, it can also promote passivity if overused. Overall, television remains an important part of modern life and education when used as a supplemental teaching aid.

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.

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