Use television to discuss controversial issues such as drug use, peer pressure, and sex. Use television to discuss plot, characterization, and setting. Explore camera angles and discuss how the use of television provides us with opportunities to tell stories. Discuss all of the possible career opportunities that are available through the medium of television. Finally, discuss the television shows you watch with your young adolescent, using the time together as a learning opportunity.
Television can become a tool to help define personal values and beliefs.
Smart Choices To help kick off the Month of the Young Adolescent, Court TV aired a special live town-hall meeting with young adolescents discussing the issues and challenges that most affect them on October 7, 1997. The program is just one part of Court TV's ongoing effort to provide young adolescents with a televised forum for their views and ideas. Cable in the Classroom is a public service initiative of the cable television industry. Through Cable in the Classroom, local cable operators and national cable programmers provide schools with free basic cable service and more than 540 hours of commercial-free educational programming each month. Many of these programs are used effectively in middle schools across the country.