THE POWER OF FILM,

VIDEO AND TV IN THE

CLASSROOM.
PRESENTED BY: THERESE SANTIAGO
BSE- Supplemental
“Next to the home and school, I
believe television to have a more
profound influence on the human
race than any other medium of
communication.”
– Edgar Dale
Objectives:
Identify the educational benefits of the use of film,
video and TV in the classroom
Know the disadvantage or limitation of the use of TV.
Demonstrate the procedures ought to followed for
effective use of TV as a form of lesson enrichment.
Introduction
The appeal of visual media continues to make
film, video and television as educational tools
with high potential impact. They are now more
accessible and less cumbersome to use. Let us
take advantage of them in the classroom.
 The Film, the Video and the TV are indeed
very powerful. Dale (1969) says, they can:
• Transmit a wide range of audio – visual materials, including
pictures, films, objects, specimen and drama.
• Bring models of excellence to the viewer.
• Bring the world of reality to the home and to the classroom
through a “live” broadcast or as mediated through film or
videotape.
• Make as see and hear ourselves world events as they happen.
• Be the most believable news source.
• Make some programs understandable and appealing to a
wide variety of age and educational levels.
• Become a great equalizer of educational opportunity because
programs can be presented over national and regional
network.
• Provide us with sound and sights not easily available
even the viewer of a real event though long shots,
close up, zoom shots, magnification and split screen
made possible by the camera.
• Can give opportunity to teachers to view themselves
while they teach for purposes of self-improvement.
• Can be both instructive and enjoyable.
 The Educational Benefits
For younger children For teenagers
-Literacy Skills. -critical thinking skills
-creative benefits developing skills in
-Numeracy Skills imagination, art and modelling,
-Social Skills music and media, through using
-Intellectual Benefits software to create a picture, or being
inspired to make something by a TV
-Educational Benefits show.
-Creative Skills -Political and social awareness by
watching news, current affairs and
documentaries.
 Disadvantage and Limitation.

• Television and film are one-way communication

device. Consequently, they encourage passivity.
• The small screen size puts television at a
disadvantage when compared with the possible size
of projected motion pictures.
• Excessive TV viewing works against the
development of child’s ability to visualize and to
be creative and imaginative, skills that are
needed in problem solving.
• There is much violence in TV.
 Basic Procedure in the Use of TV as a
Supplementary Enrichment
1. Prepare the classroom.
2.  Pre-viewing Activities.
3. Viewing
4. Post-viewing
“If Muhammad cannot go to
the mountain, bring the
mountain to Muhammad.”
 The Effects of TV
• We agree that the TV can give a more accurate, more lively and more
colorful presentation of a difficult topic in physics for instance when the
one who teaches the topic is inexperienced and can only make use of still
pictures in black and white as visual aid.
• We are aware of the numerous educational benefits of the use of the TV.
• The effect of TV depends on how it is used.
• When used in excess, it can also impair the development of children’s
ability to visualize, to be creative and imaginative. Worse, is when
children gets exposed to violence in TV.
Social psychologist Craig A. Anderson gave this
testimony to the US senate on March 21, 2000:
“The Media violence effect on aggression is bigger than the effect
of exposure to lead on IQ scores in the children, the effect of
calcium intake on bone mass, the effect of homework on academic
achievement, or the effect of asbestos exposure on cancer… high
exposure to media violence is a major contributing cause of the
high rate of violence in modern US Society.”
Excess of everything is
worst, even if it is best
otherwise.
Output
Choose a topic in any level
and search what possible
movie or film applicable to
your student.