Jean C. Cotamora BSED General Science 4
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CONTENT
Here's a video about Hypermedia in the Classroom:
Multimedia
refers to the audiovisual packaged including one or more instructional media
(text, graphics, audio animation and video clip). Hypermedia is a multimedia,
only that it is packaged as an educational software where students could access
information and perform activities. IT applications are usually hypermedia and
may be in a form of tutorial software packages, knowledge webpages, or
simulation games. The presentation of information in a hypermedia is not
chronological hence a student can have a full autonomy over his/her learning by
deciding on which path to take first. An outstanding hypermedia has the
following characteristics: learner
control – the learner decides on his/her learning, which to take first or
what to take; learner wide range of
navigation routes – the learner can choose to speed up or slowdown in
learning, skip those concepts already learned, or repeat other activities or
lessons – all depending on the student; variety
of media – a hypermedia uses more than one media but this does not mean it uses
all, it only uses those that are necessary.
EXPERIENCE
Hypermedia
is not necessarily chronological, although it can be chronological too, but it
is up to the user which to tackle first. Encarta I say, (aside from the fact
that it is a software) is a hypermedia (based on the definition of
hypermedia). With Encarta, I get to decide what to read or learn first, not
based on the arrangement of the lesson but on my preference. I decide which to
explore first. I think the Internet too is hypermedia in nature since I decide
on what I should learn not based on what it suggest but based on my interest. I
get to access to text files or multimedia files as sooner as I can because they
are just a click away, no need to go through a long chronological arrangement
of information.
REFLECTION
From
the statement above (referring to content), a teacher should then select
correctly the hypermedia to use depending on it advantages, functions and
limitations. Even with all these, a hypermedia does not replace the teacher,
instead it helps the teacher in making instruction for and learning of the
students easier and fun, less boring and not traditional. In employing
hypermedia, the teacher must get first the learners’ attention, recall prior
learning for connection, inform learners of the lesson objectives so that they
too know what to do, introduce the software and is features for them to get
familiar, guide their learning, provide feedback for them to be better, check
on their learning, and enhance retention and learning transfer by constantly
reviewing and letting them teach their co-learners.
APPLICATION
As
a future teacher, I think hypermedia is a very good software to use if I am
promoting self-directed learning in my students since learning through
multimedia is based on preference and interest of the learner. I would suggest
the use hypermedia to my students but of course only those that I have
examined. Since hypermedia offers a non-chronological way of learning, I think
I would first introduce my students to the concept of the lesson and leave to
them the reviewing or relearning of the concepts that aren’t clear to them with
the use of hypermedia soft wares.
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