Month: January 2021

Multimedia is a very useful tool for presenting information or lessons. According to Dr. Ray Pastore’s video about multimedia learning principles, I realized his video did not use enough principles since he is explaining what the advantage and disadvantages base on those principles are. He did include three pictures, but he did not make the texts and pictures well balanced. His split attention theory is very weak in this video that using his face on the left screen is very distracting and hard to focus on his texts. Also, he did not do a good job on the redundancy principle. He did mention using both text and sound plus text and summary. However, he did not include that in his PowerPoint. Furthermore, about the heart picture that he did explain, it was very irrelevant information. He should use some picture examples base on his topic. Pictures and topic did not match can give misleading information (Ray Pastore, PH.D. Aug 2018).
People are using PowerPoint for teaching tools more often so in the classroom condition we like to make students or audiences more engage to our topic. Teachers or professors can use the split attention principle, redundancy principle, spatial & temporal contiguity, and signaling to make pictures and text on one page. The text should be short and have important words highlight on it. The teacher should explain the context or picture while he is talking. If students prefer to read by themselves, they can read the summary on the screen or if they prefer to listen they can listen to the prof and watch the picture.
Overall, if we combined all the elements that we had to learn from the video, we can make a full engagement art to help people to learn.

Reference:

-Ray Pastore, PH.D.  (2018, Aug 16). What is Multimedia Learning?  What is Multimedia? [ Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-sknUVq1mk

Learning theory is a hot topic nowadays because we are using behaviorist theories, cognitive theories, and constructivist theories together in our interactive learning method. People need interactions with each other not only to gain knowledge but also for self-reflection. For example. When we have a bad parenting model, we are more likely to adopt that bad behavior. However, if we are living in a good cultural background, we are more likely to develop high plasticity. Our behavior and cognition influence one and another so once we understand how does learning theory work, we will know how to make good interactions through the lessons.

According to today’s lecture, I had learned a lot about Dual coding theory. Before I learned those, I was making PowerPoint either just using images and words or videos with words. I never thought about combined images and video together or using voice records instead of words. I think the voice recording inside of PPT will be more interesting than dry paragraphs. Also, combined those two elements will shift our short-term memory to long term memory due to the retrieval cue. Ears and eyes are the most sensitive part of our body, so if we are making something to catch attention, we will make more engagement in our PPT.

The Hypothesis tool is very useful for teachers and students to interact and trying to build a collaboration environment. Students can simply type the annotations on the part that they did not understand. However, the disadvantage is a student may face a hard time learning how to use it because it was a new tool for students. Overall, this tool did catch my attention and interests.

Audio Channel Visual Channel

Reference:

https://slideplayer.com/slide/9795229/

According to all articles on Brightspace in this chapter, I learned that we should combine and balance non-digital multimedia and digital multimedia together. I have experienced multiple non-digital multimedia teaching methods such as brainstorm, story sharing, nature walks, and group discussions. Those are useful ways to gain knowledge because students can have natural feelings according to stories or case studies. When teacher use stories telling method or students sharing their own experiences with others are more likely to think how this experience relates or affect to themselves. Once this story was shared by a real person, we will see true emotional changes and facial expressions. People will have a real feeling attached to themselves and more likely to engage in discussions. From the psychological point of view, nowadays more and more people have social anxiety and prefer digital multimedia learning style. People are afraid of facing a real person because they feel embarrassed or shy to speak (Schmidt, 2020). However, human interaction is more interesting due to body language. Some people will have a hard time following a lecture or case studies online, but they can have a better understanding when the teacher teaching them in the classroom and using their own stories. For example, I had an online class with an interesting teacher, that class is not dry at all due to personal life sharing. She gave a puzzle-solving example according to the lecture for her daughter and let us understand the concepts of sociocultural theory. Everyone will have a better image when we mention this concept and I will immediately remember her examples that explain “what we can do, what we can do with help and what we can not do” (Sukhawathanak. Paweena, personal communication, Lecture chapter 1). Pictures and videos are a very valuable way once they balance with real-life interactions.

References:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/technology/a-psychologist-explains-how-to-cope-with-video-chat-when-youre-socially

https://learningstrategieseng491.weebly.com/think-pair-share.html