The significant of Multimedia learning

With the development of the modern electronic information technology, more and more people are working on education would like to use multimedia, which convenient and improve the learning efficiency to a certain extent. I still remember when I was a primary student, that was the first time I learned about it. Because up until then, the teaching method had been written on a blackboard. In order to renovate the whole teaching system, the school had also changed the structure of the classroom, installed large screens for each class. So that teachers could write on it, show slides, and even search relevant videos online to explain a difficult point. To some extent, the change of education mode had a positive impact on me, which was embodied in my willingness to spend more time on study. Multimedia teaching is indeed an important change in the history of education, vivid and interesting pictures can motivate students more than monotonous words, and the integration of all the information helps students to grasp the key points unconsciously (Mayer, R. E, 2020).

When I was in junior high school, a knowledge point in physics class was very confusing to me, because the explanation in books was very difficult to understand. Therefore, the teacher used the newly installed multimedia teaching materials to find a video, in which the principle and process of the results were easily explained by experiments. From then on, I used to search for relevant information on the Internet when I did not understand anything.

The popularization of multimedia

Through today’s study and my personal experience, I think multimedia teaching is a way that needs to be popularized. Not only in learning, digital information is closely related to our life, mobile phone is a good example. No matter I was in primary school, or now I am in university, it seems that more and more students around me are using iPad to record. In fact, it is also a kind of information sharing. After all, the Internet itself has turned the whole earth into a small global village. Various pictures and videos have enhanced the interaction between us and knowledge and encouraged students’ passion for learning to a great extent.

Reference

Mayer, R. E.(2020), Introduction to Multimedia Learning. University of California, Santa Barbara. https://bright.uvic.ca/content/enforced/56526202101EDCI337A01(21097)CO/Introduction_to_Multimedia_Learning_edited.pdf&d2lSessionVal=YJmC3BgYIOiShB2jujDewcRoa&&d2lSessionVal=YPsrQCbsXCEZfwNIFuFqVc28m

Mike Tyler. [Mike Tyler]. (2020, April 4). Introduction | The 12 Multimedia Instructional Principles. [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6yUsUkePVI