How Non print media is useful in education

1. RADIO
TELEVISION
FILMS IN EDUCATION

2. Mass media have come to play a
fundamental role in modern society. The mass
media are media of communication – Newspaper,
Magazine, Television, Radio, Movies, Videos, CDs
and other forms that reach mass audiences. Media
can be basically divided into two categories:
1. PRINT MEDIA
2. NON PRINT MEDIA

3. Mass media education is now
largely dependent on electronic media which has
a good number of inherent advantages:
 Facilitates diverse learning objectives
 Electronic media through the variety and
newness can motivate the learner, stimulate
imagination, create and sustain interest
 Helps in involving the learner in the
teaching learning process and keep the
concentration going
 They can cater to individual needs
 They reduce the burden of the teacher

4. A) EDUCATIONAL RADIO
B) EDUCATIONAL TV
C) FILMS IN EDUCATION

7.  Radio has been playing a vital role in the field of
communication since its origin.
 Even though it works with sound only, it has the
power to stimulate values and to increase
knowledge and understanding.
 At one given time, radio can simultaneously arrest
the attention of thousands of people.
 In some places of the world it is the only medium
of education for children who live in remote areas.
 By using programs the teacher has a device suited
to help in the development of the art of listening
and the knowledge and command of language.

8.  School Broadcasting
 Adult Education & Community
Development Projects
 Farm & Home Broadcasts
 University Broadcasts
 Language Learning Projects

9. I. Service- Based Types
a. Music
b. Spoken word programes
c. Programes for special audiences- Farm,
Home & Youth programes
d. News service
e. External services

10. a. Talks
b. Interviews
c. Panel discussion
d. Live broadcasts
e. Forum
f. Dramatisation
g. Quiz

11.  Easy accessibility
 Wide coverage
 Low capital investment & Operating Costs
 Easy learner reception
 Easy production
 Feasible mode of learner enrichment
 Effective means of thought promotion
 Supporter of motivation for learner

13.  Radio brings the pupil to the classroom who
have made rare contributions to the society
 In this connection it may cited that the voice
of a great Scientist, inventor and outstanding
writer, poet, musician, can be heard over
radio, giving direct experience to the child.

14.  Since radio works with voice & sound only, it
helps the students in their imagination when
exposed to broadcasting.
 It also acts in stimulating interests of children
and extracting creativity in them.

15.  Almost every subject can be taught through
radio, but the radio is more suitable for
certain subjects such as languages & music.
 Radio specifically can provide opportunities
for developing listening comprehension as
well as improvement of vocabulary, etc.

16.  Radio is one of the cheapest medium.

17.  When compared to other devices like TV,
radio is easily repairable.
 The spare parts are available & relatively
cheaper.
 It consumes less current and can be operated
using battery also.

18.  No face to face interaction & one way
communication.
 It cannot be used effectively for all subjects
especially Sciences.
 It is only an auditory presentation and very
little of what we hear, we can remember.
 Production of radio programs requires
expertise.

21.  ETV is a system that presents learning
content in various subjects produced by an
agency.
 It is a means of providing formal education as
well as non formal.
 Wayne Coy calls ETV as the “Electronic
blackboard of the future”.

23. o ETV combines both sensory and auditory
experiences.
o It offers uniformity of communication.
o It is a versatile educational vehicle.
o It stimulates and reinforces ideas.
o It provides live broadcasts of ‘on the spot’
events.
o It is a means for leisure time activities.

24. 1. Monologue: A narrator narrates the aspects,
interlacing it with visuals & illustrations.
2. Dialogue: Conversation between two people.
3. Interviews
4. Panel discussion
5. Quiz
6. Dramas

25.  Television as a means of extending children’s
experience.
 To provide background material for a lesson
the teacher will deliver.
 To reinforce and review ideas already covered
in class.
 To provide salient illustration that will
stimulate class discussion.

26.  It is a one way communication.
 Low and poor accessibility.
 Costly affair both production and receiving.
 Difficult to integrate TV and classroom
teaching.
 Visuals become a source of distraction.

27. I. PLANNING & PREPARATION OF
PROGRAM
o The ultimate user of the ETV program is the
teacher
o The teachers role in making decisions
regarding the content, matter & sequence is
of utmost importance

28. o TV presentation requires some extra skills
other than classroom teaching skills.
o So a teacher should be competent to present
a lesson in the studio

29. o The teacher has to get the pupil ready to
watch a program by providing necessary
background information and later on
conclude based on observations after viewing
of the program.
o He should be in a position to clarify doubts &
elaborate certain missing links.

30. o The teacher should be trained to evaluate all
aspects of the program so that he will be in a
position to suggest modifications both in
content & style of presentation.

33.  Educational films are one such means of indirect
experience.
 Motion pictures or films present an abstracted
version of the real events omitting unnecessary
and unimportant details.
 A film is a multiple media communication which
presents facts in a realistic way, dramatize
human relations arouses emotions and transmits
attitudes.
 It may be use for the communication of ideas,
attitudes and experiences to a large number of
people.

35. -> Instructional films
-> Documentary films

36.  They are specially planned to achieve certain
educational objectives and are made in
specific subject areas or teaching purposes.
 These films can be background films or direct
teaching films.
 They help to promote to achieve a skill, an
attitude or to convey certain facts,
information, phenomena or theory.

37.  They are made on specific topics/aspects and
highlight them.
 Documentaries with relevance to a curriculum
can be used as supplementary material for
classroom teaching.

38.  Motion pictures motivate students and
compel attention.
 They do provide recreation
 It can bring in past & distant present into the
classrooms.
 They are vivid & hence good motivators &
help develop good study habits.

39. I. The teacher selects the film
 He should take care to select a film which
would help realize his objectives.
 For that he should :
(a) know the best films available
(b) know the source of these films
(c) be familiar with the content

40.  The teacher should organise the filming in a
systematic manner by making proper seating
arrangements, check lighting, check
ventilation & test projector & trial run the film

41.  The teacher should go through the
instructional manual & guide, which
accompanies the film.
 He should prepare the students by providing
the necessary background information & keep
the students ready.

42.  The film should be presented at the right
moment integrating it with classroom
teaching.
 If necessary the screening should be stopped
to just recapitulate in between.
 At the end of the film a brief conclusion with
students interaction should be conducted on
the spot.

43.  There should be immediate evaluation, either
oral or written for feedback.
 In the light of information obtained, the
teacher should immediately correct
misconceptions or errors if any n the
learner’s understanding.

44.  There is a time lag between screening of
lesson and feedback session, hence some
important doubts & explanations can be
missed.
 It is a costly affair to procure hardware and it
is a dream for most of our ill equipped
schools.
 The teachers are also not trained in the use
and maintenance of equipment.