Media Advancement in TV for Academic Purpose

With the advancement of technology all around the world, we might be seeing lesser people & papers while more of I.T. stuff creeping up in places you would hardly expect to see. Say, who would have thought the MRT & LRT would be operated without any driver, say, 50 years ago? Well, now we see them at our North-East Line (NEL) MRT route & the various LRTs routes in Singapore. As all these happen, we also see significant changes even in the academic field where students are using computers to learn & do their works nowadays as compared to students in the early 1990s. Just as The New London Group's article puts it,

"These examples of revolutionary changes in technology & the nature of organisations have produced a new language of work. They are all the reasons why literary pedagogy has to change if it is to be relevant to the new demands of [people's lives]."

This is precisely why more & more channels/avenues are explored & used for educational purpose. One such example is that of TV, where TV channels like Channel U (http://www.xin.sg/article.php?article=19493&st=dtl) & Channel News Asia (http://www.channelnewsasia.com/nic) offer chances for students in local schools to submit news video clips they have produced, which entail latest happenings that are deemed interesting to the public. Students are not only able to hone their written & verbal language skills & public speaking skills, but also the opportunity to expose themselves to acquire skills that are probably not offered in schools, such as those of news script-writing & roving news report before a video recorder. Furthermore, students also get to try their hands on interviewing people, video-recording and video editing.

With such a wide variation of skills to be learned, it is definitely something worth venturing for the schools as well as their students.