An overview of a symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf, "Educational Technology for the 80s" is presented. Among developments reviewed are the video cassette, the video disc, and a "closed captioning" system for television sets in which only those sets with a special adaptor will produce captions. (PHR)

A brief summary of the symposium on research and utilization of educational media for teaching the deaf is presented. The growing role of computers in the education of the deaf is recounted and specific systems, reported on in the symposium, are reviewed. (PHR)

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper reviews some of the past, current, and future applications of computer technology to the learning and communications problems of the deaf. (PHR)

This overview of the development of media education in Japan begins with a discussion of the motion picture as entertainment and the public attitude toward film in Japan during the early years of the century. The introduction of film education into the schools in the 1920s--both teaching by film and teaching about film--is then described together…

Originally part of a symposium on educational media for the deaf, the paper examines the need for education technology and explaines some current applications of computers relevant to education. Computer-assisted instruction, computer conferencing, instruction management, and instructional materials creation are surveyed. (PHR)