Dr. R. UmaAssociate Professor in Physical Sciences

Lakshmi College of Education

Gandhigram

What is Media?Media is a group that constructs

messages with embedded values, and that disseminates those messages to a specific portion of the public in order to achieve a specific goal.

What is Educational Media?

What is Education? By education I mean an all round drawing out of

the best in child and man–body, mind and spirit.

-Mahatma Gandhi

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

B T – Affective Domain

B T –Psychomotor Domain

Cone of Experience

University of Maryland asked 200 students not to use technology for 24 hour period. Afterwards they wrote 110,000 words describing their experiences represented by word size in the Wordle

Grammr and speling• A recent study published by Cranfield School of Management

found language and learning deficits in students who used technology excessively

• More than one-third (39.3 percent) of 11- to 18-year-olds in the survey admitted that text shortcuts damaged the quality of their written English, primarily in terms of spelling

• hinders spelling skills, implicitly encourages plagiarism, and disrupts classroom learning, and Over 84 percent of teens admitted to “copying chunks of information from the internet into their homework or projects”

• “They are hiding these things under their desks so they are not focusing on what’s going on in class,”

• More than 60 percent of the respondents admitted to being “very” or “quite” addicted to the internet – with more than 50 percent reporting an avid use of their mobile phones.

Benefits

Able to meet new people, internet dating

Convenient access to online services

Connect to people not otherwise available

Form communities of learning

Interesting & challenging simulations

Convenience in virtual communication

Enhanced learning through immersion

Caring about what goes on in local/global community

Explore one’s personal values, characteristics and behaviors

Sensory-motor improvement of visuo-spatial perception and motor dexterity

Risks

Internet predators

Scams, phishing, identify theft, fraud, etc.

Increasing time in virtual reality and less time relating face to face

Obsessive immersion in games, chatrooms, & social media

Replacement of reality with virtual life

Decline in face-to-face interaction

Time loss

Preoccupation with instant and continuous news

Alternate personalities (avatars) become more satisfying that real identity

Eye strain, carpal tunnel, weight increase, sleep problems

Our Mind Online

Effect of Modern Media

Sustainable Development

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