Teachers and Machines

Teachers and Machines

Author: Larry Cuban

Publisher: Teachers College Press

Published: 1986-06-15

Total Pages: 152

ISBN-13: 9780807727928

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Film and radio, television, and computers have each been heralded by reformers as a way to revolutionize classroom instruction by increasing productivity. “The promises implied in these aids caught educators’ attention: individualized instruction, relief from tedium of repetitive activities, and presentation of content beyond what was available to a classroom teacher.” How have teachers responded to the promise of improvement? To answer this question, Larry Cuban has gathered evidence from many diverse sources, constructing a history of technology and education that reveals hidden or ignored patterns in the teacher-machine courtship. He traces cycles of acceptance and denial; the enthusiasm of reformers; the initial optimism of the educational community; the hesitancy, doubts, and frustrations of teachers; and the very slow and limited acceptance of the new technology. He also asks, Why have so few teachers used machines? His answers, drawing from a range of disciplines, will prod readers into viewing the current passion for classroom computers in a different light. This now classic text provides a much-needed perspective on technology in the classroom.


Educational Television

Educational Television

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1959

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13:

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Considers S. 12 and numerous related bills, to amend the Communications Act of 1934 to authorize HEW grants for educational television facilities construction.


Screen Lessons

Screen Lessons

Author: Mary M. Dalton

Publisher: Counterpoints

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781433130847

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This unprecedented volume includes 30 essays by teachers and students about the teacher characters who have inspired them. Drawing on film and television texts, the authors explore screen lessons from a variety of perspectives. Arranged in topical categories, the contributors examine the "good" teacher; the "bad" teacher; gender, sexuality, and teaching; race and ethnicity in the classroom; and lessons on social class. From such familiar texts as the Harry Potter series and School of Rock to classics like Blackboard Jungle and Golden Girls to unexpected narratives such as the Van Halen music video "Hot for Teacher" and Linda Ellerbee's Nick News, the essays are both provocative and instructive. Courses that could use this book include Education and Popular Culture, Cultural Foundations, Popular Culture Studies, other media studies and television genre classes.


Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis

Television Sitcom and Cultural Crisis

Author: Holly Willson Holladay

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-06-21

Total Pages: 181

ISBN-13: 1040086330

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This volume demonstrates that television comedies are conduits through which we might resist normative ways of thinking about cultural crises. By drawing on Gramscian notion of crisis and the understanding that crises are overlapping, interconnected, and mutually constitutive, the essays in this collection demonstrate that situation comedies do more than make us laugh; they also help us understand the complexities of our social world’s moments of crisis. Each chapter takes up the televisual representation of a modern cultural crisis in a contemporary sitcom and is grounded in the extensive body of literature that suggests that levity is a powerful mechanism to make sense of and cope with these difficult cultural experiences. Divided into thematic sections that highlight crises of institutions and systems, identity and representation, and speculation and futurism, this book will interest scholars of media and cultural studies, political economy, communication studies, and humor studies.


International Travel

International Travel

Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce

Publisher:

Published: 1961

Total Pages: 882

ISBN-13:

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