classroom TV

Lecture hall monitor

A classroom TV is a television installed in a school classroom, traditionally mounted on a rolling cart or wall bracket.

For decades these delivered educational programming, filmstrips, and VHS tapes; students of certain generations associate them with the promise of an easy day when the TV cart appeared.

Modern classrooms increasingly use interactive displays instead, but the term persists: The teacher wheeled in the classroom TV for a documentary.

monitorDisplay or supervisor
screenDisplay or barrier
educationalPromoting knowledge or skill
educational videoFilm meant to inform
VCRTape-based video recorder

remote · projector · video · channel · static · broadcast · antenna · rabbit ears · documentary · filmstrip · AV cart · cable · pause · rewind · Bill Nye · viewing · assembly · substitute teacher

Opposites

educational vs. entertainment context

classroom TVgaming console

Video game hardware

Netflix · streaming service · arcade game · cable TV

collective vs. individual viewing

classroom TVsmartphone

Handheld connected computer

tablet · laptop · personal computer · handheld device · VR headset

institutional vs. domestic setting

classroom TVbedroom TV

Screen in sleeping quarters

Family

classroom, TV, class, room, classes, rooms, classed, classing, roomed

Familiarity: Top 500,000
Profile: Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Everyday, not technical · Rated G