Why Technology is Beneficial in Education?
Overview
Explains why technology in education can be benficail tostudents and instructors alike. gives insight to different learning styles, as well as learning principles, and approaches.
Introduction
Technology is extremely useful and important in education! It helps education grow and cater to a leaner centered approach. Allowing for personalized education for all students!
The learner centered approach is, "multimedia designs that are consistent with the way the human mind works are more effective in fostering learning than those that are not" (Mayer, 2014).
Multimedia Learning
Did you know that technology in education can allow for numerous different learning styles to be incorporated in everyday learning? Technology can allow for different multimedia learning. Multimedia is different ways that technology and social platforms allow people to connect and create.
For more information about multimeida education as well as cognitive theory check out this video!
Principles
Did you know that technology in education can allow for numerous different learning styles to be incorporated in everyday learning? Technology can allow for different multimedia learning. Multimedia is different ways that technology and social platforms allow people to connect and create.
In learning there are a couple of principles that can make education more universal some of those principles being: the multimedia principle, the modality principle, and the personalization principle.
The multimedia principle states that, "people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone" (Mayer, 2014).
The modality principle states, "people learn better from graphics and narration than graphics and printed text" (Mayer, 2014).
The personalization principle states, "people learn better when the words of a multimedia presentation are in conversational style rather than formal style and when the words are spoken in a standard-accented human voice rather than a machine voice or foreign-accented human voice" (Mayer, 2014).
Principles Introduction Video
Who Benefits?
All student benefit from multimedia learning and technology being incorporated into education. Students with disabilities benefit from it, so do students with learning disabilities.
Closing
In conclusion technology in education is very beneficial for all students as well as for all different learning styles. It also helps cater to the learner centered approach.
Reference
Mainero, R. (2017). Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=qQ8luZR9NoM
Mayer, R., (2014). Introduction to Multimedia Learning. In: Mayer, R. (Ed), The Cambridge
Handbook of Multimedia. (pp.1-10). Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press.
Peck, D. (2021). Mayer’s Principles of Multimedia Learning. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9WpfWriY7A
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