Some people say that television is a very useful tool when it comes to education. Others argue that television is a much overused, ineffective teacher. Discuss both of these views and give your opinion as to the usefulness of television as an educational tool.

There is a lot of 1controversy over whethercontroversy on the topic whether TV can play 2thea role of a teacher. Some people 3hold the view thathold a viewpoint that it can never be educational at all. Others, 4howeveralthough, disagree, referring to TV's high potential 5forof teaching through amusement. As a matter of fact, television nowadays can hardly be called educational. All those talk shows and soap operas we see every day are a complete waste of time and can even have negative effects by distracting young and undisciplined people from their studies. Moreover, 6most of thethe most of the so-called educational programs 7onin channels like National Geographic channel can not replace books and academic lectures because they tend to entertain people and 8do not aim to providehave not an aim to give 9in-depth, focused knowledgedeep and concentrated knowledge. However, TV can be a powerful 10meansmean of delivering information and 11a useful part of the learning processa nice part of learning process. 12Educational Methodists have proved that the more senses are involved at the time of studying; the more effective result can be achieved. Television produces both 13picturespicture and sound, so its usefulness is obvious. Many teachers already 14make active use of this advantageuse this advantage actively by showing students 15videos that serve as supplementary materialvideo cassettes which go as supplementary material to many language courses. So 16why not broadcastwhy not to broadcast such movies through television? The problem of the ineffectiveness of television as an educational tool 17lies not with television itself but with the peopleis in fact not a problem of television itself, but of people who decide the content of the particular channel. It is 18highlyhardly unlikely that content directors would abandon their high profits and 19replace talk shows with lectureschange talk shows to lectures and video lessons. Therefore, 20those whothose, who insist on the uselessness of TV, maybe right, but let us not forget that as technology improves new cheap ways of broadcasting appear, for instance, video broadcasts. They can prove the exclusive power of such learning tool as television.