Lesson 12
The Power of Film, Video, and TV in the Classroom
“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
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 still 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 for 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 a national and regional network.
- Provide us with sound and sights not easily available even the viewer of a real event through long shots, close up, zoom shots, magnification and split screen made possible by the TV camera.
- Can give an opportunity to teachers to view themselves while they teach for purposes of self-improvement.
- Can be both instructive and enjoyable.
While the film, video and TV can do so much, they have their own 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
a. Set goals and expectation.
b. Link the TV lesson with past lesson and / or with your student's experience for integration a relevance.
c. Put the film in context.
d. Point out the key points they need to focus on.
3. Viewing
a. Don’t interrupt viewing by inserting cautions and announcements you forget to give during the previewing stage.
b. Just make sure sights and sounds are clear.
4. Post-viewing
To make them feel ease begins by asking the following question:
a. What do you like best in the film?
b. What of the part film makes you wonder? Doubt?
c. Does the film remind you of something or someone?
d. What question are you asking about the film?
- The film, video, and TV are powerful instructional tools.
- When they are used appropriately and moderately, they can make the teaching-learning process more concrete, lively, colorful and interactive.
- Misuse and abuse of their use in the classroom and even at home have far-reaching damaging effects in the development of children’s imaginative and thinking powers and sensitivity to human life.
The Effect 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 a 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, being creative and imaginative. Worse, is when children get 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 U.S. society.”
Let us use the TV appropriately and moderately so that we can take advantage of its advantages and mitigate its disadvantages.
Using Video in the Classroom
Does video have a place in the classroom?
According to a 1992 study conducted by Synergy Broadcast Systems, “Video in the classroom is an important tool used to support the four key components of learning.”
· Active Engagement
· Participation in Groups
· Frequent Interaction and Feedback
· Connection to Real-World Experts
Why Use Video in the Classroom?
- We remember 70% to 90% of what we see, hear and do.
- Using video, creating content and producing an end result that will allow students to do all three.
Technology has changed
- Due to changes in technology, video tools are more accessible than ever before.
- Students will be using technology throughout the course of their scholastic career. The sooner they have access, the better.
Ways video helps assist classroom assignments:
• Supports differentiation
• Stimulates classroom discussion
• Reinforces readings
• Provides creative output
• Allows students to interact with classrooms throughout the world
Recommended Video Tools and Resources
• iMovie
• Sony Vegas
• Animoto
• Gizmoz
• YouTube
• Jing
Advantages
- Video can be utilized to illustrate how something works.
- Video provides information in detail that text and graphic cannot.
- Video can grab student’s attention.
- Video can show real life examples.
- Video stimulates discussions.
- Video can appeal to the learning styles of visual learners.
- Video could enhance problem-based learning.
Using Film in the Classroom
At Film Education, we believe that films is a power tool than can help learners understand and access that world and other worlds.
• Real and imagined.
• Parts of our remit is to encourage young people to learn by viewing and to be critical consumers of what they see an ability and analyses film is an empowering skill and one that is increasingly important for young people.
• Film Education's website and materials offer teacher a wealth resource for incorporating film in to the curriculum.
• With the advance in technology. it has never been easier to use or create films in classrooms from elementary school to high school.
• Let face it. using film- whether watching them or actually making them- is often a heat motivator for students of all ages.
• There are teacher all over the world who are including you tube or film clip in their lesson.
3 tips for using film in the classroom
1. You tube is your friend, but Clean tube is better.
2. Keep it short and upbeat, generally there's a law of diminishing returns regarding the length of film.
3. Use it at the start or the end of the lesson.
3 tips for making films in class
1. Teaching students how to make film.
2. Build in play time let students muck around with the different titles and effect.
3. Sometimes, it’s not about quality it’s all about the story.
How can Film help you teach English?
- Learning from films is motivating
and enjoyable.
- Film provides authentic and
varied language.
- Film gives a visual context.
- Exposes the student to spoken
language.
- Useful in teaching vocabulary.
- It contextualizes language through
the flow of images, making it more accessible.
- Film also offers an enlargement
of our knowledge of the world and the cultures that it contains.
How to use Films in Teaching
1. Find something you like.
2. Choose something you can understand 70-90% (without subtitles or other help).
3. Don’t use subtitles in your own language.
4. Watch several times.
5. Start with English subtitles, then watch again without subtitles.
6. You don’t have to spend a lot of time ten minutes a day is better than nothing.
