Does Tv Have Educational Value
Ryan Solitro
4/9/13
C period LA
Argumentative Writing Piece
Does television have educational value?
It has been said that television, has little or no educational value. I strongly disagree with this statement for a number of reasons. These reasons include that there are television shows that talk about and teach many children about subjects they learn in school such as the science and history. Also, TV catches children’s attention in such a way that a teacher couldn’t, because the way producers of educational television programs portray the shows make learning fun and interesting. This is why I would argue that television has significant educational value.
If you wish to learn something on TV, it highly depends on what you watch. For example, it used to be true that television had no educational value. When TV was nothing more than sit-coms, cartoons, comedies, and soap operas, but today you actually have more educational options to view. There are a number of different History channels, the science channel, the national geographic channel, and the discovery channel. If you wish to learn something, most likely there will be a television show or program about that subject. News programming offers political debates and commentaries, as well as current and world events. PBS has some good children's programming that teaches kids many valuable things, that they can enjoy learning. Although television focuses more on the visual aspect than the substantive. I believe that there are two types of learners, those who learn by listening to information, and those who learn best by seeing it before them. For both types of learners TV is perfect. Television has almost everything you would like to learn. For instance if you wish to learn about animals, there is the Nature channel as well as the Animal planet. Granted, there are masses of not educational shows but, if you watch the educational ones you are bound to learn something. The educational shows have a wide range of
4/9/13
C period LA
Argumentative Writing Piece
Does television have educational value?
It has been said that television, has little or no educational value. I strongly disagree with this statement for a number of reasons. These reasons include that there are television shows that talk about and teach many children about subjects they learn in school such as the science and history. Also, TV catches children’s attention in such a way that a teacher couldn’t, because the way producers of educational television programs portray the shows make learning fun and interesting. This is why I would argue that television has significant educational value.
If you wish to learn something on TV, it highly depends on what you watch. For example, it used to be true that television had no educational value. When TV was nothing more than sit-coms, cartoons, comedies, and soap operas, but today you actually have more educational options to view. There are a number of different History channels, the science channel, the national geographic channel, and the discovery channel. If you wish to learn something, most likely there will be a television show or program about that subject. News programming offers political debates and commentaries, as well as current and world events. PBS has some good children's programming that teaches kids many valuable things, that they can enjoy learning. Although television focuses more on the visual aspect than the substantive. I believe that there are two types of learners, those who learn by listening to information, and those who learn best by seeing it before them. For both types of learners TV is perfect. Television has almost everything you would like to learn. For instance if you wish to learn about animals, there is the Nature channel as well as the Animal planet. Granted, there are masses of not educational shows but, if you watch the educational ones you are bound to learn something. The educational shows have a wide range of