Media in Our World Today In the world today, it seems that media absorbs into everything we do and has become as needed as food or clothing. It is true that media has become a mirror for how people want society to perceive things. Because the use of media is so drastic and all around us, it is what shapes our lives. Media is largely in charge of the information you receive, educational programs you and your children watch and read about, entertainment purposes, advertisements, and also within news that relates with or to society. It is the media that helps people form opinions good or bad, and also make judgements about what they think is right or fair even if it is farthest from what the actual truth is. It is because of this, that media has …show more content…
It instead teaches them to expect entertainment out of their education. It is because of this that within schools it has to be more entertaining for them to stay engaged because that has become what children are used to. To Postman, this is a problem because television learning is vastly different than classroom learning. Postman argues that educational shows, like Sesame Street, only teach children to love school if the school in question is like the educational show. Postman claims that educational shows mix entertainment and education so well that children begin to expect all education to be fun. Postman fears that if something is not done to fix the current situation, society may begin to want all of their information and education to be served to them in amusing and mindless …show more content…
For one thing, the media and technological choices open to educational producers have increased immensely. Viewers now have a wider choice of media and programming and a greater freedom to decide when and where they view; such as on a tablet or on a cell phone instead of just on cable television making it easier to view these so called educational shows for educational purposes at school.. However, it would appear that the cards are stacked against the shows that would be seen in the midst of the chaos of the home environment compared to the formal learning environment. According to Keith W. Mielke, author of the article entitled “Research and Development at the Children’s Television Workshop”, educational television is non-judgmental, non-threatening, and non-punitive, and it can engage some learners who are otherwise turned off in a formal learning setting. Math, anxiety, fear of failing a test, fear of looking foolish in front of one’s peers are all problems that educational television in the home circumvents. (Mielke, 1990) This is how I have always looked at educational television as a viewer. It has always been assumed that your young child viewing these programs is beneficial to the early learning and development before school to help them get a head start and have more knowledge going into it then having viewed nothing at