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December 4, 2022 9:45 PM   Subscribe

 
film strip actual title: through the tv tube: teaching by educational television.
posted by clavdivs at 9:52 PM on December 4, 2022


Still relevant! Thanks for sharing!

Reminds me, I learned just recently that Mister Rogers had a mentor, with whom he met weekly for 22 years: Dr. Margaret McFarland. Archived article and a video.
posted by aniola at 12:01 AM on December 5, 2022 [3 favorites]


It's William Gaddis' world, we just live in it.
posted by chavenet at 1:51 AM on December 5, 2022 [2 favorites]


So none of you all did TV teaching?

My school experimented with it in the 1990s for language classes, including Spanish, which was funny because half the school spoke fluent Spanish (including the facilitator for the class).

Anyways, you would watch on TV, and then if you needed to speak to the teacher, would call in on the phone, and about 50 tiny schools were all on at the same time.

So once the teacher was asking about pop culture and rifling off a few Beatles song titles for like a quiz, and some tiny town was with her on the phone. She started in Spanish, and they would say "NO", and I guess she didn't think they understood her, so she switched to English, and finally said "These are Beatles songs. Do you know who they are?" and they said "No m'am, we listen to gangster rap".
posted by The_Vegetables at 8:44 AM on December 5, 2022 [2 favorites]


Old enough to remember both this kind of school gov't educational tv, and (thank god) the later PBS version of educational tv ... Sesame Street. When Santa brought us a color tv, first thing we watched in color was Sesame Street. (R.I.P. Bob)
posted by R. Mutt at 3:14 PM on December 5, 2022 [1 favorite]


chavenet, working my way through JR now, I thought he was imagining an alternate reality (like DFW in Infinite Jest or something). Wild that it was real!
posted by bxvr at 4:51 PM on December 5, 2022 [1 favorite]


We had Channel One in our high school. I learned a lot about Doritos which I sadly no longer recall.

I watched some of this video but stopped about 15 minutes in when Texas seceded.
posted by credulous at 8:04 AM on December 6, 2022 [1 favorite]


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