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Major Concepts and Vocabulary:
the audience. The three "Commantments""3 Commandments of educational televisionTelevision Philosophy" are as
Have no prerequisites
not a nessecityneed for the learning process.process through educational T.V.
Induce no perplexity
Without physical schooling instead of virtual,With virtual education, there is lack of true learning. There up Google.
Avoid exposition
a story.
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Amusing Our Students To Death: Outline of "Teaching as an Amusing Activity"
1. Typographic education is receding rapidly, quickly being replace with a new education based on the electric image.
Television viewing as far as many refutable studies are concerned, does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher order and inferential thinking.
From entertainment, students learn that learning is a form of entertainment. That anything worth learning can be entertaining, and should be.
Citations
Johnson, Steven. “How Twitter Will Change the Way We Live (in 140 characters or less).” Time. 15 June
2009. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1902818,00.html

Discussion Questions:
1. If the “Now…this” phrase had not been created or carried on to present time, how would news casting shows be different?
and emotions inof an event, own opinion ofon the event by the Newsnews media, does If newscasters weren’tweren't so “beautiful”,
5. How does television affect the other mediums of media such as newspapers and radio?
6. Do you believe that there will ever be a medium of news bigger then television?
7. Would you agree that “television is altering the meaning of ‘being informed’”?
8. Are all of the visual factors of televised news (scroll bar, videos, physical appearance of broadcasters, constant commercials, etc.) overwhelming to the viewer?
has it everyever affected your
10. How would the news casting industry change if their motto was “quality” rather than “efficiency”? Is there a way that the industry can have both?
Chapter 7 “Now…this”

9) Is there still the same connection/ feeling with God when you are in church vs watching church on tv?
10) Should religion be entertaining, and what makes it ok for it to be entertaining?
Researcher 1:
_GoBackIn chapter 8 of Amusing Ourselves to Death Postman targets religion. He specifies to the preachers that we see on those access channels on Sundays. Even though people prefer to go church than watching the event that unfolds in church at their home, Postman explains that it is becoming a trend to rather stay at home. His analysis from the previous chapters and chapter 8 leads to that religion and everything else has to change to become television based. An example of Postman’s argument is that, watching church on TV is different from the actual experience of going to church. His argument declares that anything can be made for TV. Even though it has be about 30 years since the book has been written, Postman’s arguments on influence of technology on society only has been only proven more and more. For example the article “Which Catholic Church?” is from a point of view of a professor from Western University who contemplates from his perspective about Pope Benedict’s resignation; he wonders about the traits of the next Pope such as will it be a women, African, and so forth. Through his curiosity he compares religion of two different societies the one he lives next to and the one he sees on TV. In the second paragraph of the article he is tired, bored, and ashamed of the TV news criticism upon the Catholic Church in Vatican because it is always the same issues, stating the common paradigm of traditional Catholicism and its conflicts with the modern world. Then on the author mentions how the people that mostly attend church around his neighborhood are dutiful to the people who need help in contrast to European church that has concern over political powers. But soon afterwards on a new paragraph the author once again talks about a TV show that introduces a man who was near his death lying outside in Jerusalem and how no one passed along attempted to help. He says in the conclusion like a lecture on resolution to the European church that “From my perspective, our Catholic Church is vibrant, helpful, intellectual, and working in so many ways to fulfill the message to love God” which clearly portrays his two different views. This article directly connects with chapter 8 because it is from a point of view of a professor who criticizes other religions through what he sees on TV and compares the entertainment world of TV to the reality.

Sesame street encourages children to love television, not school, or only to love school if it is like television, entertaining.
Because of shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company , the traditonal classroom has been laughed out of existance.
a Curriculum.
"a curriculum is a specifically constructed information system whose purpose it to influence, train or cultivate the mind and character of youth. Television of course, does exactly that(Postman 145-6)."
Television's most important contribution to educational philosophy iss the idea that teaching cannot occur without entertainment, that the two are inseprable.
4. When television becomes what takes up a lot of our time, a massive reorientation of how we learn takes place. The consequences of this reorientation are observable in the decline in the potency of the classroom and in the refashioning of the classroom into a place where both teaching and learning are intended to be entertaining activities.
Teachers are including into their curriculum more visual stimulants, and less exposition in an attempt to make their classrooms into 2nd rate television shows
order and inferenti
alinferential thinking. **
From entertainment, students learn that learning is a form of entertainment. That anything worth learning can be entertaining, and should be.

- Test should be on whether the brain has to analyze the show
- Children have to analyze the shows and parents learn from the kids on technological advances
I
Amusing Our Students To Death: Outline of "Teaching as an Amusing Activity"
1. Typographic education is receding rapidly, quickly being replace with a new education based on the electric image.
The bond between the classroom and typography is decaying while television, "creates new conceptions of knowledge and how it is acquired Postman 145)." Education is no longer in the hands of educators and school administrators, but because of the up-rise of television, in the hands of entertainers and network executives.
Television can control the time, attention and cognitive habits of youth, and has gained the power to control their education.
Sesame Street- educational shows create the illusion of justifying allowing children to watch hours of television. Parents hope the television can actually teach their children something worth knowing, and use television as a babysitter and pre-preschool. Even educators support educational shows, they find new methods congenial, which is why teacher-proof text books, micro computers, and standardized tests have been welcomed into the classroom.
School is centered around the development of language, while television focuses attention to the image.
Sesame Street undermines what the traditional idea of schooling represents. While classrooms are places of social interaction, no interaction is required of a television; you can't discuss with a television.
Sesame street encourages children to love television, not school, or only to love school if it is like television, entertaining.
Because of shows like Sesame Street and The Electric Company , the traditonal classroom has been laughed out of existance.
2. Television is a Curriculum.
"a curriculum is a specifically constructed information system whose purpose it to influence, train or cultivate the mind and character of youth. Television of course, does exactly that(Postman 145-6)."
Television's most important contribution to educational philosophy iss the idea that teaching cannot occur without entertainment, that the two are inseprable.
Plato and Dewey emphasized that reason is best cultivated in robust emotional ground.
3. Education's purpose is to set the student free from the tyranny of the present, which ca be a difficult concept for those who are only just becoming acco=ustomed to it. It is to this conundrum the television offers an enticing alliterative. Television has three observable commandments, or rules, that it follows:
Thous shalt have no prerequisites
Anyone can join into a television show at any point in it and still have to minimum amount of information to watch it.
Because of this, television undermines the idea that sequence and continuity have anything to do with thought.
Thou shalt induce no perplexity
perplexity is bound to get low ratings on a television show.
A show must not require anything to be remembered, studied, applied, or endured.
The growth of the learner is not important, but the contentment.
Thou shalt avoid exposition like the ten plagues of Egypt
Educational shows always take the form of a story.
Reasoned discourse doesn't transfer well onto television, it becomes at best a radio show and at worst third rate writing.
Nothing will be taught on television that cannot be visualized as well as placed into theatrical context.
Entertainment is the name we give to an education the lacks prerequisites, perplexity and exposition.
4. When television becomes what takes up a lot of our time, a massive reorientation of how we learn takes place. The consequences of this reorientation are observable in the decline in the potency of the classroom and in the refashioning of the classroom into a place where both teaching and learning are intended to be entertaining activities.
Teachers are including into their curriculum more visual stimulants, and less exposition in an attempt to make their classrooms into 2nd rate television shows
Television viewing as far as many refutable studies are concerned, does not significantly increase learning, is inferior to and less likely than print to cultivate higher order and inferenti
al thinking. **
From entertainment, students learn that learning is a form of entertainment. That anything worth learning can be entertaining, and should be.

Research
Thinking Theologically About Media
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References
Postman, Neil. "Shuffle Off to Bethlehem." Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business. New York: Viking, 1985. N. pag. Print.