Children nowadays spend a great deal of time watching television. However, television cannot replace the book as a learning tool, which is why children are less well‐educated today. To what extent do you agree with this statement?

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Television
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present has become part of our lifestyle, with everyone from age old to kids watching it to see channels of their interest. Having
plethora
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a plethora
of channels
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gives
everyone
vide
having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other
wide
array of options from Entertainment, Music, Movies, NEWS, Health, Sports, Knowledge, Religious, etc.., which ensure no one left behind untouched. In
this
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topic, where we are discussing if Television replace the book as
learning tool
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a learning tool
learning tools
, because of which children are
less well
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less good
- educated today, I share both positive and negatives of
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electronic mean, supporting my acceptance that Television cannot replace Book, but equally not supporting that children are less educated today because of it. Television was introduced as
visual mean
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a visual mean
visual means
of entertaining and updating people with current affairs.
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, in modern
time
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times
, it brought
bouquet
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a bouquet
of services including Channels, Interactive applications, etc.
with
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With
no restriction on
content
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. My support for
Text books
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Textbooks
as non-replacement is for the reason that text books, call concentration of
reader
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readers
the reader
and help him align his mind to
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subject
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a subject
the subject
he is reading. Learning only through television doesn’t bring that physical bonding with
subject
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as we get with books in hand and many times, learner deviate from his actual
subject
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and loses concentration.
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, I do not support belief that children these days are less-educated
compare
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compared
to earlier time
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to an earlier time
. Education is not just reading what is written, published or taught in school. Education is
overall development
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the overall development
of
child
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the child
children
a child
. Television as learning mean helps student to visualise
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content
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the content
he is reading or has read and give him near practical feel of
event
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the event
, giving him
better understanding
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a better understanding
of
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subject
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the subject
a subject
.
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, with
wide array
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a wide array
of information and multiple informative
content
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on channels available, kid can get
opportunity
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the opportunity
an opportunity
to learn global information, much more than his existing circle.
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help
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helps
young kid to create interest in new field unknown to existing piers. Every technology comes with positive and negatives and it is on us how we use that technology. We can use Nuclear to create war and same to treat human kind.
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, we can use Television as supportive mean of education without replacing Books, but equally must not blame
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technology for its negatives, if we deviate from
subject
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to other entertainment
content
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. I will compile
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subject
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supporting books as
primary mode
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the primary mode
of knowledge with Television as supportive, without blaming any for measuring level of education.
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Topic Vocabulary:
  • Educational tool
  • Documentaries
  • Passive consumption
  • Critical thinking
  • Imagination
  • Attention span
  • Literacy skills
  • Screen time
  • Parental guidance
  • Digital materials
  • Interactive learning
  • Multimedia resources
  • Cognitive development
  • Reading comprehension
  • Balanced approach
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