Teachers On TV: Classes Hit The Airwaves

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/top-news/247819/teachers-on-tv-classes-hit-the-airwaves/

Yes Telecourse Instructional programming returns to Television. The last time I heard of Telecourse programming was when the former KCSM-TV San Mateo now known as KPJK-TV San Mateo aired Instructional programming in the Bay Area back in the 1980's and 1990's. This time TV

The lesson was broadcast over television airwaves for the state’s homebound students, part of an effort to keep children engaged in learning during the coronavirus outbreak.

“This is such a weird, strange and tragic time,” said Smith, a teacher at Southern Regional High School in Stafford Township, New Jersey. The televised lessons like the one he volunteered for “can provide something that regardless of where a student is in the state of New Jersey, they can see a teacher and they can learn from them.”

Teachers have begun recording classes at home, using whatever technology they can, for television in places including New Jersey, Nebraska and New Mexico, where officials have partnered with broadcasters to help students feel connected and to overcome hurdles with access to the technology needed for distance learning.

It’s one approach among many that public media stations around the country are taking to boost the availability of educational programming while schools are closed.

New Jersey’s televised lessons began April 6 in a partnership involving the state Education Department; the state’s biggest teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association; and the state’s public broadcaster, NJTV. The hourlong episodes air on weekdays for students in grades three through six. The NJTV staff, which is also working remotely, has produced the programs and put them on air.

https://apts.org/news/station-stories/public-media-education-resources-in-response-covid-19-pandemic

For the past 12 years we seen colleges, schools, Crash Course and Khan Academy putting their lectures online as a supplement for the main class.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Academy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crash_Course_(YouTube)

 

[Mgomrjsurf]

In KC area local schools have their own TV channel.

 

[vchimpanzee]

There used to be a program on Saturday morning called "Summer Semester" in the summer and "Sunrise Semester" the rest of the year. It must have been in the 70s. I never actually watched.

Charlotte's NBC affiliate has had some kind of weather lesson at 1:00 weekdays but I think it's online.

 

[TriangleTriadMediaNews]

WJLA's sister cable all-news station WJLA 24/7 (used to be called News Channel 8) has been airing educational weather segments from 9am-10am every weekday morning in lieu of the 9am hour of their morning newscast. Wouldn't be surprised to see it used as E/I filler programming in the future should anything need to be pre-empted for sports or breaking news coverage on the main channel.

 

[crainbebo]

Don't forget WMC-DT2 (Bounce) and WKNO's Shelby County Schools instructional TV programs. This is fantastic during this struggling time for the country.

 

[Mediafrog+]

There used to be a program on Saturday morning called "Summer Semester" in the summer and "Sunrise Semester" the rest of the year. It must have been in the 70s. I never actually watched.

Sunrise Semester actually had a 25 year run on CBS. While offered to affiliates, I think very few actually cleared it. I recall seeing it on the network feed weekdays at 5:30am Central during the latter days of its existence. It immediately preceded the old hour-long CBS Morning News on the network schedule.

More here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunrise_Semester

 

[crainbebo]

Case in point: KIRO Seattle ran Sunrise Semester at 6:30AM according to a random 1978 Ellensburg Daily Record TV listing; but KIMA Yakima opted out for the PTL Club.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Classroom

Turns out NBC also aired a telecourse programming called Continental classroom in the 1950's and 1960's.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivyEj6M8-08

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMYmA0vzH90

I remember back in the 1980's and 1990's PBS affiliates used to get their content from Annenberg Learner and Agency for Instructional Television (AIT) for their telecourse lineup/instructional programming though prior to colleges choosing to release their in house content online in the 2000's.

 

[Kelly A]

Case in point: KIRO Seattle ran Sunrise Semester at 6:30AM according to a random 1978 Ellensburg Daily Record TV listing; but KIMA Yakima opted out for the PTL Club.

Yes but there's this little thing called The Public Internet now. Doing distance learning one-way on TV would be a waste of electricity. Unless of course, the station was doing it early Sunday morning as part of their Children's, or Community Public Affairs programming. But there would be production costs involved, that nobody would want to pay for. Most stations get free programming that fits within the PA category.

 

[crainbebo]

Yes but there's this little thing called The Public Internet now. Doing distance learning one-way on TV would be a waste of electricity. Unless of course, the station was doing it early Sunday morning as part of their Children's, or Community Public Affairs programming. But there would be production costs involved, that nobody would want to pay for. Most stations get free programming that fits within the PA category.

Public internet that 22 million Americans don't have at home, a quarter of those being parents of school-aged children. In many cases they often would go to the public library and use an hour of computer time for paying bills, checking emails/Facebook or (if it was kids) play games/do homework. That option is gone now with COVID, and some educators especially in the inner cities need to balance it out. Seattle Public Schools took forever to get Chromebooks out, Amazon had to provide a large sum of money to SPS.

 

[TheBigA]

The problem with all of this is we've created a kind of expectation for what we'll see on TV, and if the presentation doesn't meet that expectation, we are bored and shut down. So the idea of a teacher recording their typical lesson plan and putting it on TV isn't what people are used to seeing when they turn on their 55" flat screen. There's an entire curriculum for using TV for education. I don't see anything in the OP's story that indicates they have people who know how to use TV for education. One thing I know is that NJTV isn't even owned by the state of NJ, because Governor Chris Christie sold it to New York. It all sounds like a great idea, but try getting an 8 year old to watch.

 

[Y2kTheNewOldies]

https://tvnewscheck.com/article/mor...chool-districts-original-educational-program/

Fox has announced that KTVU Plus will air instructional programming from the San Francisco Unified School District for the time being. I do remember Governor Newsom in one of the press conferences that schools will be closed up to May or June when K-12 schools and colleges in California wrap up the academic year.

As part of its effort to reach all students, the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) is partnering with Fox O&O KTVU San Francisco (DMA 6) to provide an hour-long television episode every weekday especially for preschool-2nd grade students in San Francisco, called SF Loves Learning.

The show on the stations KTVU Plus subchannel will provide access to academic and social emotional learning opportunities from SFUSD and partners for San Francisco’s youngest students, who have disproportionately less access to technology than older students.

Each episode will include an opening, a daily lesson, wiggles & dance, a read aloud, music, mindfulness and a closing segment. The show will be in English with some lessons/segments featuring other languages, including Spanish and Cantonese.

 

[crainbebo]

That's KICU, channel 36. It airs at 2PM weekdays and replaces Wendy Williams.

 

[Kelly A]

Public internet that 22 million Americans don't have at home, a quarter of those being parents of school-aged children. In many cases they often would go to the public library and use an hour of computer time for paying bills, checking emails/Facebook or (if it was kids) play games/do homework. That option is gone now with COVID, and some educators especially in the inner cities need to balance it out. Seattle Public Schools took forever to get Chromebooks out, Amazon had to provide a large sum of money to SPS.

Having purchased 200 Chromebooks, then distributed all of them to employees working from home all in less than two weeks, I can with confidence say that it ain't easy.

Statistics show that roughly 10% of the U.S. public don't have access to the Public Internet at home. That's nationwide. Many just choose to use their Smartphones for Internet access. Just for the sake of argument, let's assume there are 10% of viewers within a community that don't have Internet access. It would be safe to assume that half of them may not watch local TV. So you're saying at a station should dedicate their programming to only plus of minus 5% of the local population? Do you know how much it costs to run a TV station?

 

[Mr Tony]

WBRA PBS Roanoke, VA launches "Blue Ridge PBS Southwest VA TV Classroom!"
http://www.blueridgepbs.org/

Beginning Monday, May 4,
Blue Ridge PBS is offering classes Monday-Friday from Noon-1:00pm
in partnership with local teachers and experts from regional businesses,
Roanoke City Schools, and Roanoke County Schools.

Its main station is 15.2 of which Dish is picking up temporarily. It normally is reruns of shows part of the day and PBS World on overnights/early morning