The integration and use of technology and specifically, of computers into the classroom can positively change the teaching and learning process. A broad array of computer tools such as hypermedia and multimedia can enhance and change traditional instruction.Hypermedia and multimedia have the potential to change significantly traditional instruction in many ways. For instance, multimedia used as tools by the teacher can be interactive, programmable according to certain teaching goals and can potentially change according to the needs and the style of the learner. Moreover, the use of hypermedia and multimedia cause a move of the teacher’s role. Specifically, the teacher becomes a facilitator, problem setter and guide instead of taking a central role and being the teacher as a teacher.
Moreover, a major advantage of learning with multimedia is that multimedia projects improve educational outcomes and promote problem-solving and decision-making skills to the students while also multimedia contributes to making students achieve high self-esteem and to become more self-directed. This is so, because multimedia enables students to represent information using various media, to organize information in many interesting ways and to acquire knowledge from a variety of sources. Furthermore, the fact that multimedia engages a variety of learning modalities (visual, auditory, etc.) appeals to various learner styles simultaneously.
Research shows that people absorb and retain information far more readily if they can associate the information with a variety of stimuli while, using hypermedia and multimedia in the teaching and learning process can help address the needs of people with varying learning styles.
not only for the students but for the teachers as well because they are been given the opportunity to create interesting and motivating projects with multimedia on which students can collaborate and work on them. I personally used HyperStudio during a research I was doing. I visited a school of primary education, a class with students of the grade level of 9, I installed HyperStudio on the lab’s computers and was taking video with a camera while students were working on their computers on a project I had designed in HyperStudio. The project was about the subject of geography and many countries history. It included essays with questions to be answered, photos of the countries, grammatical exercises as well as outstanding videos of some known cities. The children were very excited and fulfilled the exercises and they had achieved well. HyperStudio is definitely an interesting, motivating, interactive educational software that must be used in the classroom whenever possible!
ReplyDeleteMultimedia and Hypermedia can do a lot if they are used appropriately in the learning environment. There is a variety of multimedia software that can be used in learning activities and provide mane outcomes. Students get excited, interested and motivated when they have to work with multimedia and hypermedia. I personally use Kidspiration and Inspiration in my classroom and I can see that my students are excited whenever I tell them that we are going to work with this software. They collaborate in groups; develop interesting projects each time about a specific subject while they also seem to help each other whenever needed.
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