Advantage and Disadvantages of MULTIMEDIA
- 2. No one can ignore the role that technology and multimedia applications play in the academic and personal life of the students. Technology started to be part of everyday life; in school, at home, with family, with friends and colleagues, etc. This technological revolution will have a great impact on the students’ learning. In the new vision of challenging learning activities, the curriculum for all students would emphasize the integration of higher order thinking skills, authentic tasks, and mixed-ability groupings. Instead of students practicing discrete, isolated skills (such as spelling and punctuation done on worksheets), the curriculum would stress composition, comprehension, and applications of skills.
- 3. Through participation in multimedia activities, students can learn real-world skills related to technology. They will know the value of teamwork and the importance of effective collaboration techniques. It helps the learners to express and represent their prior knowledge and provides them with many learning opportunities.
- 4. Through participation in multimedia activities, students can learn real-world skills related to technology. They will know the value of teamwork and the importance of effective collaboration techniques. It helps the learners to express and represent their prior knowledge and provides them with many learning opportunities.
- 5. it provides a non-threatening environment for a learner to study at their own pace The teacher is no longer the center of attention as the source of information, but rather plays the role of facilitator, setting project goals and providing guidelines and resources, moving from student to student or group to group, providing suggestions and support for student activity.
- 6. It facilitates teaching-learning process . The combination of text, sound, and graphics holds the attention of students and makes students innovative by making their studies more meaningful. most learners enjoy working with multimedia • It brings forth students’ talent in various ways. It empowers students to work as a designer while designing their slides, browsing and interpreting the information and then representing their knowledge to others.
- 7. it involves interaction between the learner and the various elements on the screen
- 8. • Lack of IT knowledge certain students may not be as computer literate as others • Most schools may not have technological resources, both hardware and software, that are required for using multimedia in learning.
- 9. • Some teachers depend on the traditional way of teaching because they do not know how to integrate the multimedia in their teaching. • Most teachers need much time to prepare lessons, to evaluate students and to create tasks and activities, so they will not get more trouble by develop multimedia activities.
- 10. • video files can be large and a long download time may leave some students with nothing to do • sometimes, diverts students’ attention to the pictures, sounds or relevant material presented in multimedia. • Sometimes, excessive information about certain topic leads to cognitive overload and it becomes difficult for the students to understand all the information presented to them.
- 11. • It can be incredibly difficult for teachers to monitor all the students, and some may play games or surfing the web instead of focusing on the work at hand. • One concern with computers is that they can reduce learning demands on students. With access to the web comes millions of pieces of information, many of which contain answers to common problems from school. Students can use computers to do less work or even to cheat.
- 12. • multimedia formats and the devices that play or store them require a constant supply of power and frequent updating, a fact that can be problematic in more remote areas. • As technology rapidly evolves, compatibility between different devices can also be a problem when trying to move or play multimedia content. Even a simple malfunction, server error or changes between formats, as anyone who frantically struggled to connect a computer to an incompatible projector before a presentation knows all too well, can delay a presentation or permanently damage the information contained in the format.