The document discusses the role of television as a powerful medium for education, highlighting its ability to engage diverse audiences and its importance as a teaching tool in various educational contexts. Television serves to reinforce formal education and enhance learning by accommodating different learning styles and increasing student motivation. Its impact should be assessed in terms of teacher competencies, student engagement, and its effects on general viewers, illustrating the concept of 'edutainment.'

1. Name :- Pritiba B. Gohil
Roll No :- 21
Course No. 15 :- Mass Communication and Media Studies:
An Introduction
Presentation Topic :-
TV as a medium for Education
Enrolment No :- PG 14101016
M.A. English Semester - 4
Batch Year :- 2014 - 2016
Submitted To :-
Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University

6. • Television is the audio-visual media of
communication.
• It offers a window to the outside world.
• Among all the mass media, television attracts
the largest number of viewers.
• It is the most popular and has the greatest
potential.
• This is because it is able to attract the
audience of all age groups, literate and
illiterate and of all the levels of the society

7. • Television has been given
considerable importance in many
countries as a source and a tool of
teaching.
• Television is adaptable and can
follow different approaches when
used in the different educational
situations.
• The medium is used for formal,
non-formal and informal education.
• To support formal education,
television usually function as
supportive and reinforcement tool.

8. • Generally television can help to achieve the
following objectives:
1. Social quality in education
2. Enhance quality in education
3. Reduce dependency on verbal teaching and
teachers
4. Provide flexibility of time and space in learning.
5. Stimulates learning
6. Provide mass education opportunities.

9. • Teacher can use Television in the classroom
to satisfy a variety of objectives like :
1. To reinforce and expand on content being
taught
2. To respond to a variety of learning styles
3. To increase student motivation to learn
4. To stimulate other learning activities.

10. • The impact of television on macro level
should be studied in three areas namely;
1. Teacher’s Competencies
2. Student’s Competencies
3. Effects on general viewers

11. 1. To show practical application of
principle already written in the
textbooks and to show the
laboratory work and
demonstrations.
2. To humanize distance education
and to improve language skills
and teaching skills by showing
model teaching techniques.
3. To show real life situation and
microscope things on magnified
scale
4. Animations, dramatic
presentations, slow motions and
case studies.

12. 1. Instructing
2. Explaining ,Clarifying
3. Summarizing
4. Reinforcement
5. Imposing study speed
6. Supporting and enhancing teaching
7. Motivation and encouragement
8. Using as supplementary for the other materials
9. Presenting a reference to large masses
10.Presenting unreachable facts and events

13. Education + Entertainment = Edutainment