Teleschool
TeleSchool is a Television based program conducted by the the State Institute of Educational Technology (SIET) Doordharshan in Andhra Pradesh. Targeted users are school children and works for improving the quality of education through audio video material.
Material Prepared:
- The programs produced are blended in the form of 30 minute capsules making them interesting, useful and relevant for the audience as well as other secondary audiences like Teachers, Parents etc.
- An ETV capsule is right mix of Curricular(30%), Enrichment & Non-curricular(50%), Educational Entertainment(20%). Making it more interesting.
Curricular includes the subject areas like Telugu, Maths, Environmental Studies.
- non-curricular part includes general awareness programs and programs on National Integration, Pollution, Art, Culture, Physical Education, Festivals, Moral Values, Achiever-Children and so on
- Entertainment includes Humor, Jokes, Puzzles, Visits to Exhibitions and Interesting Places etc
How do information reach the required?
- The ETV programs in the form of capsules developed by the Institute are aired through Regional Network of Doordarshan Kendra, Hyderabad from Monday to Friday between 10.30 a.m. to 11.00 (30 minutes).
Activities:
- Design, develop and disseminate alternative learning systems
- Promote Educational Technology, especially ETV
- Train Personnel in Educational Technology
Equipment:
- Camera studio chain and ENG
- Editing Consoles
- Character Generator
- Computer Animation system
- Video projection system
Achievements:
- The Institute (SITE) has so far developed 119 programs each of 30
minutes known as capsules.
Opinion of the audience:
- Sukanya Reddy (currently MTech 2nd year in Pilani):
- They teach lessons of physics maths etc. and that is shooted and will be telecasted. They also have some audience basically students form nearby schools who ask questions which are relevant and this gives feel of class.
- Good professional people will be conducting those.. so this is a good media thru which they are sharing their knowledge to all students all around
- But if there is provision so that they can clarify thru that media is not possible.. anyways they say it clearly in a easy way, that all will understand even the person who don't have basics of it.
- one more thing in teleschool they show some experiments which r very lively.
- They also show rear equipments that we use in various feilds. which cannot be done in all the schools.
- Really a good work.
- Chandra Sekhar (Currently MTech 2nd year in NIT Warangal):
- it is based on the fact that visual teaching is more effective than traditional black board teaching.
- Becose human tends to remember things better by visullization rather than listening.
- It is useful for the children at school level as its name suggests, at which stage the improvement of visualisation makes much effect in their thinking.
- Their analytical skills also improve drastically. Some problems:
- They shud have improved it with new examples even it is targetted to the same classes, examples should change
- Most of the schools in Andhra Pradesh don't have electricity.
- Though the government gave some televisions to some villages in which there is powersupply, they are missusing the telivision sets. In some cases the televisions are taken by the gram sarpanches.
- The Institute is not paying attention in updating the content of the capsules.
- Ex. They shudn't say about how to dial a phone & how to use it by demonstrating with a old phone.
website: Teleschool Home page