The digital native generation of students today are more likely to access digital media rather than printed, so as modern day teachers we must take advantage of these new medias to scaffold learning outcomes that students can relate to and be engaged by. With these new tools teachers can engage students in ways that never use to be possible with hybrid mixes of video, text, pictures and sound. For example a blog can contain written text with embedded video and photos. These elements can also link to other pages on the web and also integrate into social media. If applied correctly adding visual elements to verbal lessons will help students retain data (eschoolnews.com).
Adding video, text and audio to lessons help creates linked memories that strengthen data retention in the brain. Care must be taken in this process not to overload the brain with data, if too much information is presented it could create negative learning outcomes.
The following diagram explains the learning outcomes possible by using digital video.
A. J. Romiszowski (1981).
How would I apply these media to my teaching context?
The following video was created in Microsoft photo-story (unfortunately the sound input did not work), it depicts my two pet dogs going for a walk with text explaining the activities on each page. Students could be asked to create their own similar story. Care would have to be taken not to ostracise any students that don't have pets, in their case the could just take photos of scenery on their walk.
These photo-stories could then be shared by students within a lesson so each student could explore and learn the different parts of the city / town that each student lives in. The combination of pets, scenery, text and audio would create connected memories that would aid in data retention,
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Romiszowski, A. J. (1981). Designing instructional systems: Decision making in course
planning and curriculum design. New York: Nichols Publishing.
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