Channel One is now something i can’t get off my mind, just a couple weeks ago it was something that i never heard, but just these past couple of days its something I couldn’t stop from thinking about. Will Channel One soon takeover all of the schools? My opinion towards Channel One is both good and bad, it is hard for me to choose between the two, i believe it determines your situation, and how you view Channel One. For example the CEO of Channel One believes it is best for schools, on the other hand somebody might think Channel One is bribery towards lower achieving schools, or maybe someone just like me think its both good and bad because students don’t really pay attention to it and they receive free electronics. So after reading this Blog leave me a comment and tell me where you stand on this situation. 

Channel One is something I never heard about until reading it in the book, it seems like Channel One only targets schools of lower class with lower grades. Since these types of schools have no funding then where else would they get new computers, and other electronics they might need. Sometimes these things aren’t that new. Letting Channel One takeover your school makes your school become part of a market, and now companies are now free to advertise when your students should be getting more time to focus on work. Maybe Channel One would be better if students chose to sign up for it, and then if they went through with it, at the end of the semester they could win an ipod or laptop or something. Channel One cannot target schools of an upper class because they don’t need them; they already have nice computers and anything they need. I think Channel One was created to target lower achieving schools.

Since Channel One is something i never really experienced, i decided to ask a few students on how they felt about channel one. Most students said that it didnt really affect them and channel one is just like watching commercials. Most students during Channel One work on stuff from other classes. Channel One doesn’t seem to really affect the students, its just something thats there. Most Students say Channel One gives them okay equipment, its not the best but its not the worst one student quoted. I believe if i experienced Channel One, i would have the same opinion and would use it as a break from class, and work on other projects. Channel One from the students point of view is sort of a neutral look, it doesn’t seem good or bad. I also believe Channel One could be neutral, they gain nothing but they also lose nothing but like fifteen minutes.

Channel One targets schools that are lacking grade wise and that are less funded, this creates a perfect marketing scheme for them to fill that gap technology wise. Since most of those schools dont have any funding, Channel One can be looked at as their savior, who wouldn’t take free technology for fifteen minutes of commercials that most students don’t pay attention to. If i was in the situation of needing funding and lacking technology, Channel One would most certainly be one of my choices.

Suppose Channel One starts to target schools that are more funded and have better grades and are somehow able to advertise within those schools. Would Channel One start to become more publicized and become a problem, and what if those schools started to decline slowly. Maybe Channel One was the starting point in those schools getting lower grades, and they just started giving them electronics to make up for it. Barber believes that Channel one is a mischief that hasn’t yet come to the light. He gave examples on how this is state propaganda, and what if someone said watch the message of christ for a couple minutes for free equipment. He also says that people have ran away from the idea that John Adams believed in, which is common schools. He made a good point on how kids “learn” to believe everything in school is true. So what if Red Bull constantly had their commercial on how it gives you wings, then all kids would be drinking Red Bull until they get wings.