Disadvantages Of Multimedia Learning

Media culture and technologies influence on curriculum in the classroom over the last 20 years has been astronomical. The increase in the use of multimedia and technology in our everyday lives has become a major influencer on the way students and teachers navigate within their classrooms. This has created a sense of urgency to incorporate this new tech culture into the classroom. With so many advancements and ideas for the facilitation of technology in the classroom, there are a number of seemingly outlying factors that contribute to technologies successful incorporation and use. When technology is seen as a valuable collaborative tool in the eyes of the students and educators it can aid in student learning, understanding, and lesson facilitation. When technology is not seen as a valuable collaborative tool its implementation and use is stagnant. The perception and attitudes of teachers play a major role in the success or failure of the introduction and implementation of technology in classroom.

(Pernia, 2008) describes ICT as a technology used for communication that can help to create, manage and shared information. The researcher explain that the broad definition of ICT includes, computers, the internet, telephone, television, radio and audio-visual tools also further that any device and application that has been used as access, manage, integrate, evaluate, create and communicate information and knowledge is also an ICT. According to (ETS, 2002), the International Literacy Panel regards ICT as combining Information Technology (IT) and telecommunications. The panel further explains that IT is the electronic display, processing and storage of information, but not necessarily the transmission of the information. (Onunga and Shah, 2005)

While designing Power Point presentations, developing an online course, you may need to reconsider how you will get the students to engage with the material without much traditional face-to-face interaction. When we watch images, presentations, videos or animations, we find some of them are more effective than that of others. Some of the material helps in better retention, You must be curious to know what makes this difference and how to make use of ICT to get better results, to help the students to learn in an effective way and help them to retain the learned material.

Whether the student learns better through seeing, hearing or a hands on activity, whatever his or her needs may be, technology is able to assist the student.

Electronic communications have taken over young generations life. College and high school students prefers talking on social media rather than face to face conversations. Students get most of the news or information from the social media according to Rick Nauert, a senior news editor, “For most of the students reporting in the study, information of all kinds comes in an undifferentiated wave to them via social media” (Nauert). Electronic communications have disadvantages on students’ life. The articles, “Harrisburg U.’s Social-Media Blackout Is More of a Brownout,” by Don Troop and Growing Up Digital, Wired for Distraction,” by Matt Richtel discusses about the impact of social media on students’ life. All three articles have a commonality about the side effects of social media and its use. Over usage of social media made young generation addicted to social media, unable to concentrate on study, and encourage the universities to block social media on the campus network as an experiment.

It’s exciting and something we can all look forward to in the learning community. As Radford A., (1997) expressed “interactive communication tools will transform our capability to embrace an educational paradigm that deals with learning as a vital, fulfilling, and continuing part of life at home and in the workplace as well as within educational institutions”.

The guide will help integrate technology into this multimedia project that will provide students with fresh ways to learn and opportunities to apply knowledge to new situations, thus encouraging problem-solving and thinking skills. The instructional plans used in the multimedia project will make sure that students have access to technology that enhances learning. Students will learn to use technology in conducting research and in presenting what they have learned. Students will also apply productivity/multimedia products to support personal productivity, group collaboration and learning throughout the curriculum as well as use technology to design, develop, publish and present products related to classroom content. The purpose of this guide is to help teachers deepen students' learning and to challenge teachers and students to set learning goals that go far beyond the classroom (Tanner, Bottoms, Feagin, Bearman, 2003).

Students can become eager to learn while deepening their understanding about a topic with technology present in the classroom.

In the 21st century, educators believe using technology can be an effective factor in education for the new generation, making educational goals easier to achieve. In fact, technology is being studied by teachers and implemented into classrooms for a positive effect on student learning. Many teachers are integrating multimedia tools in teaching students different skills including synthesizing, analyzing, evaluating, and presenting information. When students use technology, they learn to convert data into information and transform information into knowledge. Also, using multimedia tools gives students the opportunity to participate and interact in the classroom. Consequently, the trend for integrating technology into education has become more widespread in most schools today. Digital storytelling is one of the multimedia tools that can support teaching and learning as well as students’ motivation. This research explores how digital storytelling can be an effective tool for both teachers and students in order to support learning and skills.

There are both sides to everything and the possibility of technology bringing society to its knees has sparked a lot of controversies. Some people argue that technologies like the internet, smartphones, and computers distract students and it prevents them from achieving academic excellence. It is true that the use of these technologies is an issue, but I believe people should embrace and advocate for the use and advancement of technology in schools.Technologies not only creates a better environment for students in terms of their academics, but it also helps control and reduce the risk of plagiarism in school. At the end of the day, the positive effect of technology in education outweighs the negative effect by providing students the opportunity to obtain education from different sources and methods to better their understanding.

In a classroom setting, lectures and discussion are the primary learning resources. Although media is accessible during non-class hours, to have multimedia content as a learning tool, while students develop ideas and concepts, lends itself to a more customized learning experience.

Technology has become present in different aspects of our lives, but the most increasingly in the education system. Technology has changed and will change many ideas of education and the potential of educational systems. How does education technology make the students more excited to learn and enjoy school? Modern education has changed from the traditional learning methods that used paper instructional delivery to the more advanced approaches that use computers in delivering instruction. From elementary schools to the higher learning institutions, educational experts have created means of transferring educational information from the teachers to the learners. Education technology in its broadest meaning is the use of modern technologies such as computers, computerized communication gadgets, and internet services to enable the sharing of crucial academic information from the instructors to the learners. Workers are willing to expand their knowledge in the institutions have had a unique opportunity to continue with working and learning at the same time. Education technology is the most interesting improvement in the education sector that learners will always admire to use due to its quick information-processing abilities, different options to utilize during learning, easy learning progress, and easy communication between the teachers and the learners. The educational technology is

Multimedia can be defined as the media in which spatial data like text, image and sound are merged with temporal data ( voice and video ), by means of a unifying objects- the computer. A much broader one with the accent on the transformation of the media could be suggested. In this light, the multimedia revolution is seen to result from the development of the following three types of media:

A teaching content of a subject varies in nature therefore; it can be best presented by employing various media of communication. Moreover it facilitates the individual variation of the learner. Now multimedia package of learning are developed.

This makes it possible for the computer to accept and act upon a variety of different kinds of response from the learner and to provide information in textual, graphical, and animated form (Rushby, 1989). Kaput (1992) enlisted there are three advantages of usage of technology in teaching and learning; (i) interactivity, (ii) connectivity and (iii) controlling of learning environments. Furthermore computer suggest opportunities for learner-control, improved enthusiasm, associations to the real world, and enhance student achievement as measured in variety of ways, including, but not exclusively limited to, “standardized achievement