AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS

DEFINITION

An audio-visual aids is an instructional device in which message can be heard as well as seen.

Audio-visual aids are those aids which help in completing the triangular process of learning.ie, Motivation, classification, stimulation.

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Audio-visual aids are any device which can be used to make the learning experience more concrete,more realistic and more dynamic.

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CONCEPTS OF A-V AIDSAudio-visual aids are sensitive tools used in teaching and as avenues for learning.these are planned educational materials that appeal to the senses of the people and quickens learning facilities for clear understanding.

A CHINESE PROVERB:

“If I hear I Forgot , If I see I remember , If I do I know

Says the importance of sensory perception of teaching, learning situation.

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PURPOSES OF A-V AIDSImprove and make teaching effective.Enable the audience to look, listen and learn.Make learning interesing and profitable.Quicken the phase of learning.Economise teachers effort.Foster/develop the knowledge.It helps in newness in lesson and provide vicarious

experience.Brings expected behavioral changes among the learners.

Stimulate curiosity.The students acquires clear,accurate and vivid

image during the process of learning.Increase and sustain attention and concentration.Provide an opportunity for situational type of

learning. eg:Field trips.Stimulate thinking and motivate action.Saves time and energy.Changes attitude or view of learners.Develop continuity or thought.

Increases the concreteness ,clarity,effectiveness of ideas and skills being tranferred.

Economise teacher effort.Helps in learning process.Helps to improve the students skills.To gain practical skills.Helps to develop knowledge.helps to develop vocabulary development.Facilitates freedom among learners.They direct dramatise the experiences.

Audio-visual aids educate children for life,promotes international understanding.

Provide a basis for more effective perceptual and conceptual learning.

Helps to develop thinking process.Stimulate concentration.Develop higher faculties among the students

and it promote memorization,thinking process and reasoning power.

PRINCIPLES OF A-V AIDS

1. Principle of selection

2. Principle of preparation

3. Principle of proper presentation

4. Principal of physical control

5. Principle of response

6. Principle of evaluation

CLASSIFICATION OF AV AIDS

1. Projected and Non-projected aids

2. Audio-material, visual material and Audio-visual material

3. Big media and little media

4. Three dimensional aids