Mayer and Moreno’s principal of Multimedia indicates that people learn more deeply from words with pictures, videos, and illustrations rather than just words alone, which is also considered to be known as the computer based environment. Another important point of this article is the cognitive science research which shows how people learn with the multimedia instructions such as Dual channels that has two channels; the auditory and visual, which are used for processing information. Each channel has a limited capacity to take in information at one time, and third is that learning is an active process of filtering, selecting, organizing, and integrating information through our prior knowledge.
The main purposes for the multimedia learning environment are to reduce extraneous cognitive processing, manage essential cognitive processing and foster generative cognitive processing. The multimedia learning system has many principals that can be incorporated not just in education, but in many other fields to create a more effective learning system. As many of us have heard that students have a spam of twelve minutes or so where they are fully focused in a lesson, and if that lesson is not interesting or effective enough, that focus spam starts to wither very fast and the multimedia learning system is a great way for engaging students in the lesson, and be able to teach more effectively.
Yes we must keep in mind a students attention span. It is also important to remember one of the central ideas in the article in that it is important how illustrations, key words etc. are used so as not to create a distraction to the learner.
ReplyDeleteI agree!!! Due to the attention span of students we now have to teach basically in mini-lessons, so the idea of media input in students learning seems definitly logical. Students in this generation are more likely to learn from outside media than sitting in their seats being lectured. As long as the cognitive load of information does not send students to over load I believe media is a great way to keep student engage as well as educate them. Btw i love you background!
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