PRESENTATION ON TED 501 QUESTION NUMBER 6.

PRESENTATION ON TED 501
EDUCATIONAL MEDIA AND TECHNOLOGY

QUESTION NUMBER 6.

}  What is educational need, problem or gap for which the use of new media might potentially enhance learning?

Parts of Presentation

q INTRODUCTION

q MAIN BODY

q CONCLUSION

q REFERENCES

Meaning of important terms

q Education refers to a total process of human learning by which knowledge is imparted, faculties trained and skills develops (Farrant,1982).

q New media refers to the concept that new method of communicating in the digital world allow small group of people to come together online and share, sell and exchange goods and information.

q Generally new media refers to the equipments which are techniques such as computer, projectors, smart phones, television, films, internet, virtual reality, iPods and emails which can facilitate learning and teaching process in education field.

Example of new media as illustrated below in the picture

Examples.2 New media concepts

q One of the educational needs is availability of materials. This facilitate much to the achievement of the goals of education, therefore media such as computers, projectors, smart phones, iPod, internet connectivity can help teachers and learners access to materials easily with time management.

samples of new media that can enhance learning in educational need of materials

      

q Education needs to transmit knowledge and skills to individuals so that they can adjust to the changing environment. So new media plays very important roles in transmitting these knowledge and skills to individual through motivating Learners to study, managing time of teaching and creating interaction of all sense organs during learning and teaching.

q The education faces the challenges of registering, applying for support and all other details involved with enrollment. This also could be easily solved by using new media and increasing the enrollment and learning to occur easily among learners. The use of internet access in computers, smart phones and iPod do simplify the work of sending and receiving information pertaining education and enrollment.

q Motivational needs where the learners and facilitators are supposed to be encourage especially in learning and teaching, the use of media plays important roles in encouraging the students to learn as well as teachers to teach since new media reduce the boredom of the subject, increase interest among learners on particular subject as well as reducing drop-out of many students

•         Although  we have educational need for which the use of new media might potentially enhance learning, but still the education is facing a number of problems such as follows;

•         Lack of infrastructural support

The inadequate supply of power and unreliable supply of electricity affects much the use of media in education. In order to solve this problem we need to use other sources of power such as solar panel especially in rural areas.

q Lack of expert especially on the use and maintenance of different educational media.

o    This highly affect the use of new media in education since many media is highly affected with viruses that limit the application in education

}  Also lack of knowledge to run these media affect much on the use and application of these media in education arena.

q Expensive of most new educational media is another problem that may hinder the use of new media in education to enhance learning.

q Lack of democracy

 The country with political instability and demonstrations may not attract many investors to invest in education system of the country with political instability. Things like civil war, demonstrations and riots create insecurity to most investors as results many afraid to invest in particular country.

Therefore the new media plays important roles in enhancing learning in education because help access to course materials, motivate learners or students, creates more opportunities for extended learning, improve writing skills, increase more participation and fulfill the language deficit.

References

q Dzidonu, C.K and Reddy, P.G. (1997), Paper Presented at ESS Telecom        97 Distance Learning: A Bridge to the Future, World Bank, Washington DC.

q Haque, M. (1991), Information and Media Technology in the Third World, Media Asia. Vol.18 pg.220.

q Singh, Y. K. (2005), Instructional Technology in Education. New Delhi: A.P.H. Publishing Corporation. 

 

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3.	KONGA ALLEN  A.	TEKU/BAED/GK/11229
4.	AMANYISYE  OSWALD	TEKU/BAED/GK/11164
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