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TV influences people during all ages, but especially during childhood and adolescence. In this study we analyze the TV habits of 87 individuals (49 female and 38 male) from ages between 11 and 16 years old. They belong to two public schools in Seville, between sixth and ninth grade. The instrument employed is the questionnaire we have prepared for this study, which compiles all the relevant information for the subject of our analysis. The variables include: preferred programs, who picks them, the respondents bed time, if they eat while watching TV, who decides the programs, time watching TV, time exercising, time studying and doing homework, how do the consider themselves intellectually, and what is the basis of their opinion. These variables have been correlated with the academic performance. The results show that the students that spend more than four hours a day to watching TV favor sedentarism, diminish physical exercise and school related activities, and end up with a low academic performance. Their TV habits increase with age. We highlight the importance of TV networks making an adequate control that should compete in broadcasting quality programming and should abandon the strategy they have adopted of broadcasting non-cultural programs to attract audience. Also, parents should get more involved, through viewers associations, and create community TV programming forums (as it is already in place in some Regions of Spain) in order to increase the quality of TV content and to review them because, in most cases, children are choosing the programs.

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Nowadays television is a hard war of audiences and profits. In this world, there is no space for educative television and the grid is only made from an economical point of view. Television is a really important mass media (problably the most important) and it is important to use it on an educative way in order to improve and to fix the knowledge reached at school. The knowledge explained by television is closer to children than adults and teachers explanations. The characters used on this kind of programmes made the learning process easier and funnier. A perfect example of this way of teaching is Seame Street.

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The objective of this research was to investigate the perception of 424 children and teenagers about the programs they watch on tv, and what kind of programs they would produce if they had a camera on their hands. The data collection was made in 12 schools of Distrito Federal, attended by students who belong to medium and lower income classes. A questionnaire was presented to the students, who were asked to elaborate individually some audiovisual instructions with drawings (storyboard). The starting point to the elaboration of the instructions by the kids and teens was the question: What tv program would you make if you had a camera on your hands? This paper presents the analysis of the answers of the children and teenagers about the question above, as well as the other questions in the questionnaire, so that it was possible to observe which kind of relation they have with the television and which tv storyboards they would like to watch in the open channels.

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Conventional television is getting transformed and diversified to adapt to the new requirements and conditions of the new digital contexts. This means deep transformations in the production, distribution and reception systems; in the programs, genres, and contents in general; and in the commercialization channels and financing systems. This work gathers the new challenges of the “multi-screen society” that is appearing in our horizon.

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Few means provide us with more controversial and interesting materials in a moral sense than television contents do nowadays. By showing many cases which involve a conflict of rights and values, it gives plenty of opportunities for moral reflection. It is a very valuable instrument since it offers us relevant present problems, which are also very easy to understand and motivating for young people. This paper is intended to make some suggestions in order to foster the didactic use of some television contents. More specifically, it is intended to show the possibilities that moral dilemmas offer for this purpose. Accordingly, I will put forward some dilemmas which have been built from television materials, as well as several indications for its didactic use and a field research example about them.

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The main goal of this work is to analyze the education of young people about TV in non-Mediterranean European countries, especially devoted to the French community of Belgium. The author analyzes TV educational policy (not only from but also for young people) to help new generations acquire a new kind of media autonomy and the necessary maturity to replace compelling intake by intelligent and reflective consumption of their media habits.

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This research tries to contribute with some information, reflections and proposals on television, and its main goal is to explore the possibilities that television offers as an educational tool in the family, orientated to the education of their children. Therefore, the reception and impact on the families of the region of Cantabria of the program of television «Home from school» was evaluated as an initiative of the Marcelino Botín Foundation. The results obtained with the questionnaire to the families who saw the programs show that television is a tool at the disposal of parents, a resource that helps them to educate their children.

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TV has a great power as an educational tool for children. Teachers, politicians, directors, parents and general public should join forces to take advantage of TV as an instrument for learning. Governments, families and schools should work together on making of TV a good educational tool and not the opposite. Because even though TV is a handy and convenient nanny, TV is not Mary Poppins, not at all (...).

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The focus of this contribution is the relationship between education and television. The main idea is that it is not only possible to teach television, but it is often television that teaches about itself. This hypothesis leads to build up a model with four possibilities for teaching television. The article describes their characteristics referring to experiences and formats developed in Italy.

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TV parameters are speed, atomization and history absence. The weakest voices like the children´s are not usually «taken into account» by television. Schools must be rethought and they should and redefine their strategies in order to adjust to the ethics/aesthetics of «video clip life». Adding TV up to school studies might be profitable. Integrating TV as a study object can help to develop a thinking process. One of the education greatest challenges is to achieve the promotion of the children’s rights through television.