EDUCATION (Teaching and Learning)

EDUCATION (Teaching and Learning)

1. is improved and enhanced by

   • TECHNOLOGY
     • TYPES/FORMS
       • Visual Media
         • Two-dimensional materials
         • Benefits
           • allows the representation of images, causing identical cognitive recognition processess, such as those we follow in the real world
           • emphasizes concepts
           • increases comprehension
           • broadens perception
         • Forms
           • Printed visuals
             • such as photos, drawings, shapes, sketches, cartoons, comics, books, newspapers, and magazines
           • Projected visuals
             • such as projection slides through the overhead projector, the use of presentation software (e.g., Microsoft PowerPoint)
               • most widespread form today
       • Sound and Audio Media
         • Benefits
           • increases communication
             • comes in touch with emotions and also creates emotions
             • gives life to the past by activating memory
             • sensitizes the deeper elements of people's culture
           • is muldimensional and characterized by
             • immediacy, simplicity, similarity; easy management, processing and transmissions
         • Forms
           • Human speech
             • used as
               • Audio and audiovisual narrations
               • Navigation aids and/or advanced human-computer audio interaction
           • Music
             • used as
               • Musical backgrounds
                 • to relax the user
                 • to change the mood
           • Sound effects
             • used as
               • Synchronous and asynchronous sound effects
                 • to indicate location, inputs, outputs
                 • to guide the audience's attention and feelings
                 • to determine the time of the day and the mood
                 • to denote transitions
                 • to create unrealistic effects as well as the narrative of the "visual world" (e.g., video games, computer games and the internet)
           • Podcasting
             • contains: music, sound effects, and human speech
       • Social Media and Audiovisual Platforms
         • user-generated content (UGC)
         • PLATFORMS
           • Social media
             • Vimeo
             • Netflix
             • YouTube
           • Online learning management systems
             • Blackboard
             • WebCT
             • Moodle
             • Wikis and blogs
         • Benefits
           • allow learners to participate in formal and informal learning conditions
           • enable connections and exchanges between people of similar ways of thinking
           • answer to contemporary students' needs
             • faster access to information
             • innovative and motivating materials
             • faster and easier communication
           • creation of progressive, interactive, and effective learning environments
       • Computer
         • Benefits
           • can be used to provide feedback
           • enables personalized teaching and learning
           • promotes group collaboration learning
           • represents reality
           • fosters lifelong education
           • connects us with the world
           • allows direct, flexible, and faster communication (email)
         • MULTIPLE USES
           • tutor-tool-tutee
       • Video
         • Benefits
           • integrates and combines all forms of content (e.g., text, image, and sound)
             • most illustrative
             • most demanding
           • delivers a contextual, realistic, and intrinsically interesting experience for something that is impossible to watch directly
           • provides repetition and imitation of activities
             • needed to gain psychomotor skills
           • is offered as a method of self-observation
           • engages a wide variety of educational levels and disciplines dealing with different requirements and needs
           • presents unique immediacy and simplicity
           • motivates
           • transmits information
           • contributes to the supervision of how knowledge is presented
         • Forms/Uses
           • Streaming video
             • preferred by Gen Y and Z
           • Audiovisual narrative for presentation purposes
           • Introductory video and/or animations
           • Video-lectures of educational nature
           • Integration into recreational activities and games
           • Interactive video on non-linear narrative articulated systems
           • Human-computer audiovisual interaction
           • Virtual reality and/or immersion services
           • Time-lapse sequences
           • Panoramic projection and virtual browsing applications
         • dominates the majority of activities of modern everyday life and education
     • TEACHING METHODOLOGIES
       • Modern Approaches
         • Differentiated teaching
           • based mainly on the constructive theory
           • involves
             • stimulation of motivation
             • cognitive and metacognitive development
             • performance development
             • learning at any age
         • Interdisciplinary teaching
           • aims to
             • improve professional practices
             • socialise learners
       • Main Traditional Methods and Educational Techniques
         • The production method
           • starts from the general picture to the partial
         • The inductive method
           • starts from individual elements to gradually capture and describe the whole
         • The constructivist method
           • is based on knowledge as
             • result of a past experience
             • customisation of personal sustainability
             • creation
             • social, cultural, and linguistic context
         • The interpretative method
           • combines inductive and productive method
   • Theoretical background: Audiovisual Media in Technology-Advanced Learning