Sending cool homework through T.V.

Guayaquil-Ecuador

By Hugo Velasco

How many times have you had problems with your kids and the T.V.? . According to a research done by experts in 2006 in the U.S. , kids spend forty percent of their time watching T.V. at their homes ; specially when parents are working .
Most of parents are in a constant fight with their kids and it is usual to hear things like: do your homework!!!!, turn off the T.V. !!!!, You‘ve been the whole day in front of that !!!!!!! , You will not watch T.V. the entire week!!!!!.

What could we do as teachers?? Well, there are some things we could do in order to take advantage of technology; in this case the T.V. might be a good tool to engage our students with interesting topics that might be discussed in our classrooms.

For example, sending our students to watch channels such as Discovery Channel, Travel and Living, History Channel, Animal Planet and others, selecting specific topics or focusing on a specific task might be really useful for our Science, Social Studies, Marketing, Debate, and even our Language classes. If you stop and think what skills are your students developing or reinforcing ; you might come up with the conclusion that through television students might practice their listening comprehension , acquire new vocabulary , write a summary , listen and compare different viewpoints, start a debate based on a specific topic, formulate discussion questions , give opinions , and so on .

Now that you’ve heard some tips and advantages for using T.V. as a learning via in stead of a problem- maker; why not implement it!!!!!. Don’t let the T.V. take over your life, use it wisely!!!!!