Article #12: Why are the film, video and TV powerful in the classroom? What are the educational benefits of the use of film, video and TV in the classroom? What are some disadvantages or limitations of the use of TV? What basic procedures ought to be followed for the effective use of TV as a form of lesson enrichment?

•  Brings the world of reality to the home and to the classroom through a live broadcast or as mediated through film or videotape. Makes us see and hear for ourselves world events as they happen. Make some programs understandable and appealing to a wide variety of age and educational levels.
• Film, video and tv provide us with sounds and sights not easily available even to the viewer of a real event through long shots, close ups, zoom shots, magnification and split screen made possible by the tv camera.
• Excessive tv viewing works against the development of the child's ability to visualize and to be creative and imaginative, skills that are needed in problem solving.
• Prepare the classroom, darken the room, students should not be seated too near nor too far from the tv. Set the rules while viewing. Point out the keys they need to focus on. Viewing, don't interrupt viewing by inserting cautions and announcements you forgot to give during the pre-viewing stage. Post-viewing, ask what the students learned, summarize what was learned.