This column presents 15 practical TV literacy ideas which a teacher can use to spark up a teaching year with no red tape, special funding, or planning. (Author/KC)

A lecturer in the School of Education, Nottingham University, contends that teaching about the media need not be an elaborately complex business. He suggests some of the constituents of a worthwhile course, the nature and effects of television images, and areas for further investigation. (PD)

Television viewing is shaping all of us and especially young people, far more than we know, and perhaps more than we are shaping ourselves. On television Americans see a lot of alcohol consumption; few old people; and many policemen, doctors, lawyers, judges, and law-breakers, but few blue collar workers, artists, salespeople, clerks, or…

The complete text and pictures of a slide/tape and videotape presentation explain Prime Time School Television (PTST), a non-profit organization, with emphasis on the active role of participants in utilizing prime time programs in everyday teaching-learning situations. PTST encourages teachers to recommend and use evening television programs as…

Before teachers can effectively use television technology in the classroom, many of their fears and uncertainties regarding the medium must be eliminated. For example, there are no studies indicating that television is nurturing a generation of dependent, passive watchers. Nevertheless, because children do spend one-sixth of their time between…

Authors looked at ways in which children's interest in and knowledge of 'media culture' provided a basis for classroom learning. (Editor/RK)

Instructional, or educational, television can be an effective instructional tool if lesson plans are developed that promote interactive viewing and involve the students in a variety of integrated learning activities. Teaching methods will influence the decision to use educational television as well as the ways in which television programming is…

This report of research discusses the role of popular television in developing children's verbal skills and in bringing together adolescents and adults. Implications for the home and classroom are described. Titles include "If You Believe in Television, Clap Your Hands," an introductory look at research concerning popular television in the…

The critical viewing curriculum employed in this study helped young children improve their understanding of important dimensions of television commercials. Each of the three instructional approaches (lecture, audiovisual discussion, and role playing) was successful in raising awareness and skepticism about commercials, but the role playing method…

IN ORDER TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF A 17-PROGRAM TELEVISED COURSE IN MODERN MATHEMATICS FOR PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS PARTICIPATING IN THE PEACE CORPS ETV PROJECT, A MATH TEST AND A QUESTIONNAIRE WERE ADMINISTERED TO 1341 TEACHERS, DIVIDED BETWEEN COURSE VIEWERS AND NON-VIEWERS. MORE THAN HALF OF THE TEACHERS HAD VIEWED MORE THAN HALF OF THE…

Twenty-one emotionally disturbed elementary grade children completed a television viewing skills curriculum. Results of the intervention found that the subjects made significantly more accurate reality-fantasy discriminations concerning television program content than a control group; however, the curriculum was not effective in increasing…