Boxing clever: television as a teaching tool

Thanks for the article, but - speaking especially as a film and television studies scholar - I hope that for many of us the use of audio-visual material for teaching is already expected as opposed to unusual. Images dominate the way students access information. It is, after all, via their smart phones, tablets and computers that the majority of them engage with the world. It's several years since Simon Schama argued for TV history and historians to be taken seriously; it is not images per se that 'dumb down.