The Times

Classroom TV?

Continued from page 17 But won't students, learning from their television screens, miss the indispensable give and take of the classroom? The answer is no. ETV will never occupy more than six thirty-minute periods in a school day. Therefore three hours is the maximum length of time any student will ever be exposed to ETV, and most children will have even less time. Traditional classroom work will always be necessary to make the ETV lessons stick. AS WE all know, there is a serious shortage of teachers, and ETV will help us to use the teachers we have more effectively, and spread our available talent. ETV is a support, not a substitute for regular classroom teaching. Students, for their part, point out that ETV teaching forces them to concentrate, since the lesson is given just once. Many of them are stimulated by the new style of lectures. "My televised geometry class is the best-planned course I've ever had in my life," a Hagerstown, Maryland, boy declared. Another student wrote to his studio history teacher, (who, of course, had never seen him): "You are the only teacher I've ever had who has really understood me." "Thank goodness," said another, "there's no chance for anyone to interrupt the teacher during the telecast to ask foolish questions!" High-school teachers have found that students exposed to classroom TV are able to get into college as easily as those taught in the usual way. Many teachers believe that the students who have had ETV will be better prepared for the impersonal atmosphere they will find as they go on to college lecture courses. This new tool is no panacea for all our educational problems, and the reservations about cost and "regimentation" are very understandable, but in the opinion of most educators, and students who have been exposed, your child is not going to be shortchanged by classroom television.

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