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Show Gravy bowl f " c Television vs. live teachers : simply be displayed--on television. Everyone would get a close-up look. A television camera in the classroom class-room could be used like an overhead over-head projector-as an aid to more effective teaching. This compromise would put the teacher back in the classroom, but it wouldn't kick the television out! Questions from students would be adequately handled. Visual aids would be appropriately appropri-ately available. Blackboard Obviously, the television blackboard black-board would be more useful in fields like history and geognp! than in, say, English. But, eir te the non-pictorial fields could a tc enhanced by its use. ce Photographs of obsci; M authors, scenes depicting Ik Wi homeland, the setting of i wl stories, or pictures of fc l characters-all would liven m: lnI lectures. J'31 The Boobers have a good Ifc "ei Effectively used, television te; oni lectures to life-but not to lit of breathing life. Flesh-and-Blctf have the edge in personate Combine the best of the e ( approaches and you've got an: moi provement for both- star Dlir BY GLEN LEONARD University teachers have taken sides unnecessarily in a debate over television's role in the classroom. class-room. One group contends that the live presentation of information by a flesh-and-blood instructor is the only way to teach. The Flesh-and-Blooders are opposed by the Boob-Tubers, who fall headlong into the arms of the new technology and praise its virtues vir-tues as an aid to teaching. By drawing such clear-cut battle lines, the contestants have overlooked a healthy compromise. The issue simply isn't one of sterile black-and-white versus living color. Personal Touch The Flesh-and-Blooders rightly argue that the personal touch in teaching is the key to effective learning. But the Boob-Tubers also have a point in their favor. Television allows every student to have a front-row seat and a close--up look at visual aids such as maps, charts, and objects used in lab experiments. To be effective, a professor should incorporate into his living lectures the plus-factors of an electronic assistant. Effective Flesh-and-Blood teaching could be enhanced by the presence of carefully placed television sets, to which the living-breathing living-breathing instructor could refer as needed. Many Flesh-and-Blooders already use maps. Many spend precious minutes sketching charts or writing names on blackboards How much more effective-and time-saving-sould be the use of television sets as blackboards, When needed, the map or sketch or name or chart or object would |