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…

STARTING IN FEBRUARY 1961, THE MIDWEST PROGRAM ON AIRBORNE TELEVISION INSTRUCTION (MPATI) TRANSMITTED COURSES IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES, SCIENCE, ARITHMETIC, ART, THE HUMANITIES, MUSIC, SOCIAL STUDIES, AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS TO 18 SCHOOLS IN THE MIDWEST. THE AIRBORNE TELECAST OPERATED OVER NORTH CENTRAL INDIANA AND TRANSMITTED COURSES OVER AN AREA…

THE FOUR MAJOR EFFORTS OF THE OREGON EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION PROJECT WERE SUMMARIZED. THE REPORT (1) RECOUNTED THE HISTORY OF THE RESEARCH EFFORT, (2) SUMMARIZED THE SECONDARY SCHOLARLY PRODUCTS OF THE PROJECT, (3) ABSTRACTED RELATED PRELIMINARY REPORTS, AND (4) PROVIDED GENERALIZATIONS BASED ON DATA COLLECTED DURING THE COURSE OF THE STUDY…

This paper discusses WNET-TV's response to an HEW Request for Proposals concerning the development of critical television viewing skills. Two factors that should be considered when planning the implementation of a critical viewing skills curriculum in public education are identified--where and how to fit critical television viewing into the…

This study surveyed the specific assignments in the television production courses at 175 United States colleges and universities. The following conclusions were drawn from the analyses of the data collected: Television production courses involve the students with television production formats identical to those found in the broadcast industry.…

The Coast Community College District owns and operates its own UHF television station, KOCE. The content of the TV courses and trends in enrollment are detailed in this report, with emphasis on the spring semester, 1973-74. The report determines the educational and public service needs of the community with respect to televised college courses.…

The early childhood education program described in this report is a 3-year program of preschool education to prepare 6-year-old rural children to perform tasks and acquire skills expected of the average child at the first grade level. Language, cognition, motor skills, and orienting and attending skills are emphasized. This program is proposed as…

The full potential of educational television cannot be exploited unless certain assumptions inherited from network television are discarded: television need not be broadcast, it need not have glossy packaging, and it need not make use of the same techniques and equipment as large-scale broadcast television. Throughout this manual techniques and…

Surveyed broadcasting departments to determine the kinds of on-air training they provide students. Found that 68 (or 48 percent) of the responding institutions broadcast or cablecast a student-run television news program. (PD)

Describes an attempt to deal with student-teacher interaction problems and shows how other types of interactions were maximized in a televised advertising course. (HOD)

This is the eighteenth in a series on the use of instructional technology at 24 colleges and universities. Florida Atlantic University was one of the first in the nation planned around the use of instructional media, and as such, it had to proceed while learning from its own trials and errors. Specific difficulties are described. (Editor/LBH)

Do textbooks matter in an ever-changing field of broadcast journalism? Are some teaching materials irrelevant or out of touch with equipment needs, or lack thereof, at small institutions? Noting that these questions need to be considered when evaluating broadcast or mass communication writing and production textbooks by national companies, this…

A description of the Deuel Vocational Institution's program which trains prison inmates in TV production. (HB)

Examines the way cinema and television studies are taught in South African universities, especially at Pretoria Technikon Film School and Rhodes University. (PD)

Explores the possible use of simultaneous multi-channel still picture television broadcasting to improve foreign language listening comprehension. Current application of such a system in Japan is described and additional uses for multi-channel programing are presented. (RAO)