Volume : 3, Issue : 1, JAN 2017

INSTRUCTIONAL TELEVISION: ITS NEEDS AND POSSIBILITIES

UPESH CHAKRAVARTTY

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In the early days, an instructor used to deliver his speech live or via videotape to the audience. The students could get the lecture/class at home and ask questions for better clarifications. Instructional video is an important tool to enhance and strengthen the effectiveness of the teaching/learning process in the classroom. Television has made the communication system more and more facilitating and comfortable in all fields of the society. It has made broadcasting of cultural, educational and also commercial in the way to help and assist the people to get knowledge and information by which they can upgrade their occupations. Of course, mass media in education may play a distinct role for facilitating the learners with more effectiveness. Radio, CD/DVD cassettes may give some opportunities to the students for self-learning. Television and education in the classroom are often thought to be the two things that don't mix all that well. Previously, television was thought to be a thing only for enjoyment and killing the spare time. It cannot enhance the capacity and productivity of the people. But, gradually, this concept has been changing day by day. The people can learn a lot of things by seeing the television. There are now, a variety of content and different types of programmes on the television like fictional dramas, soap operas, documentaries, news and lifestyle programs and besides this, there are educational programs that are meant for both the learners and the teachers in school and the people who are interested in a particular topic. The best teachers realize and understand that even a perfect or good lesson plan won?t help students learn if the students aren?t engaged by themselves. If the students are actively involved in classroom activities then it may stimulate thinking, encourage interaction and support collaboration may excite the students to learn. TVs in its initial stages primarily provided recorded lectures and educational television programs. But classroom technology has come in the last half century. Hence, today, the educators bring a new life to the classroom by integrating television with technology to create a more engaged classroom situation. Smart TVs, Apple TVs and Whiteboards are almost similar to play its own role in favour of the students in the classroom. TV is an excellent technological device for illustrating facts or themes, describing context, and generating interest. Since it is not a truly interactive medium, so care has to be taken in such way so that the students can have less chance to speak about their difficulties in going through the lesson presented by the TV. As there is no provision for interaction, so, the teacher should play his role in finding out the difficulty and complicacy in terms of the lesson being presented by the TV and also to clarify very well. Hence, the teacher will have to be the middle person to help and assist the students. An especially effective use of video is engaging student to pay interest by providing an introduction and also presenting a lesson. After such a presentation, which generally lingers for five to fifteen minutes, the teacher has enough time remaining to teach the students with relevance to the lesson presented by the TV and to cooperate with the students individually to ensure that they have comprehended the lesson.

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