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.
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