Advantages And Disadvantages Of Media

In order for learners to understand the difference between themselves and reality in a classroom there are materials or resources that must be used. Learning and teaching support materials refers to a spectrum of educational material that the teacher use in the classroom to support specific learning objectives, these are all materials that facilitates learning and includes all materials that aid learning and teaching for learners.

The main purpose of this research is find out how learning and teaching support material can act as a bridge between learners and reality.

Firstly, it is very important to remember that a classroom consists of many different kinds of learners and all those learners have different needs and different preferred ways

Media assist learners to understand more about the real world. E.g. if a life science teacher brings the structure of the heart to class, learners will get more knowledge and skills of the heart than they would if the lesson was conducted in theory. http://www.medialit.org/reading-room/10-benefits-media-literacy-education Disadvantages of the media.

Media may be a distraction to learners.

Media may be a distraction to learners in many ways. Learners may not focus on the purpose of the lesson rather on the media used, e.g. If a teacher uses images in a history class for a certain lesson, learners may concentrate on those images rather than on the purpose or the message behind those pictures. This becomes a problem become the objectives of the lesson are never met.

Economical standards of the school.

There are schools which are previously disadvantaged and they do not have enough and adequate resources or good infrastructure that can support the use of different kinds of media, i.e. most rural area schools do not have electricity and do not have water and sanitation. Electronic media such as Overhead projectors and Computers cannot be used because economical conditions of the school have to be taken into account.

Level of maturity of

Research after research has indicated that using new media is not a horrible tool to assist in teaching, but that using these medium as a primary material takes away from students the ability to develop their imagination and critical thinking. That, of course, goes against the very goals of teaching. If this becomes commonplace perhaps the teacher is using “new media” as the primary tool in the classroom because it is easier to set up or because it requires less planning the long term effects on the students can be