Abstract
MTV, the rock station, recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and media pundits debated the impact of musical video. Computer terminals are invading our classrooms and phasing out our typewriters. Our pupils, too, are secondor thirdgeneration video junkies weaned on Nintendo games and clever educational software. The revolution has been used as a scapegoat-and rightly so-for the literacy problem and the paucity of critical-thinking skills of young people ever since the 1960s. For language-arts and English teachers, the revolution has spawned units about coping with the mass media and is directly responsible for the proliferation of television production courses, broadcasting and dramatic workshops which all harness the power of the written word recorded as visual image. Doubtless, has application in almost every subject
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