Q.3 Discuss the role of educational TV concerning Pakistan?
Course: Broadcast Media in Distance Education
Level: B.Ed (1.5 Years)
ASSIGNMENT No. 1
Answer
Television has been given considerable importance in many
countries as a source and a tool for teaching. The success stories of using
television for education in many countries have negated the concept that
television is basically an entertainment-oriented medium and it is hostile to thoughts.
Television is adaptable and can follow different approaches when used in different educational situations. The medium is used for formal, non-formal, and
informal education. To support formal education, television usually functions as a supportive and reinforcement tool.
Television can be attached to school curricula and timetables. When systematically organized it takes the form of a school broadcast. In
non-formal education, television has a more specific role to play. When used as
a part of a multi-media communication tool, television can directly or indirectly
teach the subject matter.
The importance of television to communicate information, ideas,
skills, and attitudes has been affirmed by research. You should attempt to
study various reports published on educational television in different
countries in different situations. In the words of Director BBC “next to home
and school. I believe television to have a more profound influence on the human
race than any other medium of communication.”
If media is to work as an effective teaching tool then
certainly it is a helping hand towards, achieving the aim and objectives of
education. Media is an agent of boosting cultural economic and social development
activity. Television, as an important mass medium, disseminates education
through formal and informal methods.
Television also continues to benefit the masses by making
them conscious of the environment, rights, duties, and privileges. It is a source
of teaching etiquette, language skills, hobbies, social relations, and
religious beliefs. The role of television is neither fixed nor easily tangible and
measurable. The role is directly related to the question of how the planners
are serious and determined to use television. The role could either be enormous
or, on the contrary very meager depending upon the specific tasks and available
resources. Generally, television can help to achieve the following objectives:
- Social quality in education
- Enhance quality in education
- Reduce dependency on verbal teaching and teachers
- Provide flexibility of time and space in learning.
- Stimulates learning
- Provide mass education opportunities.
As far as the impact of education on television it should rather be
studied in more narrow and specific areas. In the world of Scram; TV is more
effective in teaching mathematics, science, and social studies. Whereas history,
humanities, and literature have not benefited from this medium to the same degree.
The impact
of television on the macro level should be studied in three areas namely;
- Teacher’s
Competencies
- Student’s
Competencies
- Effects on
general viewers
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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES OF AIOU
AIOU is a distance learning institution. Students in this
system are not supposed to come at the campus for class study. However, the “open
learning system” of AIOU is not absolutely parallel to that of independent
studies by the private and external students who are registered with the boards
or universities and appear only for the final examination. They get a degree on successful
completion of terms. AIOU learning system is more systematic and disciplined.
For the purpose of the educational programmer of AIOU, electronic
media is used for a variety of purposes depending on the requirements of the
courses and teaching methodologies. Follow is the summary of various uses of
television;
- To show the practical application of principles already
written in the t textbooks and to show the laboratory work and demonstrations.
- To humanize distance education and improve language
skills and teaching skills by showing model teaching techniques.
- To show real-life situations and microscope things on a magnified scale
- Animations,
dramatic presentations, slow motions, and case studies.
AIOU has so far produced more than four hundred television
programs and many non-broadcast audio-visual cassettes. Slide tapes and flip
charts are also used as visual media. Television is used in sciences, technical
and vocational subjects. The demonstration through television helps to
substitute the laboratory experiments. In social science and language, television
is used to show real-life situations. Television also helps to understand
information, which is too complex for written or spoken explanation.
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