Teaching Media

VISUAL PRINCIPLES THE ROLE OF VISUALS IN INSTRUCTION - One role that visuals definitely play is to provide a concrete referent  for ideas. - Visuals can simplify information  that  is difficult to understand. - visuals provide a redundant  channel; that is, when accompanying spoken or written verbal information they present that information in a different modality,  giving  some  learners  a  chance  to  comprehend visually what they might miss verbally. VISUAL LITERACY Consider the sorts of visuals that are used every day for important  communication purposes, such as the emergency information  cards in airplanes or highway signs that  warn  of dangerous  curves or  obstructions. Visual literacy can be developed through two major approaches - Input  strategies. Helping learners to decode, or "read," visuals proficiently by practicing visual analysis skills (e.g., through  picture analysis and discussion of multimedia and video programs). - Output str

MEDIA AND MATERIALS MANIPULATIVES Real objects-such as coins, tools, artifacts, plants, and animals-are some of the most accessible, intriguing, and involving materials in educational use. They are known as manipulative because students may handle and inspect them.  Example: The collection of Colonial era coins, frogs dissected in the college biology, laboratory, the real baby being bathed  in the parenting class-these are just a few examples of the potential of real objects to elucidate the obscure and to stimulate the imagination. Verbalism Verbalism is a term that refers to parroting words without meaningful  understanding.  To build schemata that have meaning and relevance in their lives, learners need a base in concrete experience, and bringing real objects into the classroom can help in this. Cutaways : Devices such as machines with one side cut away to allow close observation of the inner workings Specimens : Actual plants, animals, or parts thereo