On average, adolescents view television 23 hours a week. After coming home from school, students spend almost as much time watching television as they do going to school and doing their homework combined.
Television offers a constant stream of information and is a wonderful learning tool .
But rarely do educators teach young people how to understand television , how it works, and how it influences our lives. From preschool years to high school , children are conditioned to respond to an electronic box, but not to understand its potential. It is possible to harness the power and potential of television. Television can be used as a tool to teach young people to become intelligent, critical consumers of television. To raise students' awareness of their television-viewing habits To help students apply their critical thinking skills to their television viewing To help students understand the difference between elements of fantasy and reality To enable students to recognize various special effects and to show how they are used to distort reality or arouse excitement, suspense, and interest To help students understand why there are commercials on television To help students identify some of the different styles and forms of advertising and to adopt a critical approach when analyzing and even appreciating commercials To understand how television influences our feelings about, and knowledge of, ourselves and our relationships with others To help students recognize the distortions and risks of imitation produced by television's frequent portrayals of violence To give students some understanding as to how television conveys both positive and negative messages about such issues as nutrition, substance abuse, stereotypes, and violence to top of page Benefits of Joining the Seattle CCV Project Seattle School District instructors that join the SCCV Project will receive a hard copy of the complete CCV curriculum.