what is the impact of media on education?

Answer 1

Media Impact of Think Tank Education Publications 2001
by Eric Haas, Alex Molnar and Rafael Serrano
Education Policy Studies Laboratory
Arizona State University

This report examines the nature and scope of the media coverage of education-related documents and education spokespersons from the Heritage Foundation during 2001. It is the first in a series of reports on the impact of think tanks on education policy.

In The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the New Policy Elite, James Smith describes think tanks as “private, nonprofit research groups that operate on the margins of this nation’s formal political process.”1 The first think tanks appeared in the 1950s. They proliferated in the 1970s and 1980s. Today, more than one thousand think tanks operate in the United States.2

The Heritage Foundation is often considered the “General Motors” of think tanks.3 Founded in 1973, it is one of the largest and best-connected think tanks in the United States. Moreover, it is widely regarded as the think tank most effective at getting media coverage for its publications, policy proposals, and spokespersons.4

The average American adult spends over two hours a day watching, reading or listening to the news. 5 While Americans are often skeptical about news reports on education, they nevertheless want the news media to cover education more than it currently does.6 Therefore, when the news media select the Heritage Foundation as a source on education, they position it to play a prominent role in shaping the education debate.7

Since Americans rely on the news media as a primary source for information on education issues, they indirectly vest news sources—in this case, the Heritage Foundation—with the power to help define the terms of the debate. It is not that, through the selection of its sources, the news media tell Americans what to think, so much as frame what to think about.8 In other words, those education issues defined by the public and policy makers as problems and the types of solutions needed to address them are, to a large extent, influenced by the sources selected by the news media.9 follow the link below for rest of this article.
http://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/EPRU%202002-115/EPSL-0205-115-EPRU.htm

Answer 2

The Impact of Media on Education

Whether we live in Germany or the United States, we are all aware of the pervasiveness of new media in our everyday lives. We are surrounded by television, the internet, cell phones, blogs, blackberries, pod casting, and other digital formats, as well as the more conventional print media.

These media forms offer educators incredible opportunities for teaching. However, at the same time they pose an equal number of challenges as we strive to make sense of media forms and employ them effectively as educational tools.

How can we interpret and deal with these media and their influence? How do these media directly and indirectly shape our opinions, as well as those of our students and the rest of the society in Germany and the United States? How do we process the information presented to us? How does the German media differ from American media? How do our respective national media portray the other country? What is the role of the newspaper in the digital age?

Answer 3

media is very useful for increasing our knowledge it is a very effective way of bringing awareness to people or u can say its very effective way of educating people .......there is a lot of impact of media on our lives as well as on education.

Answer 4

there about the same so not much impact