1. UNIT 7 Computers and Computer-Based Media Presenters:
Euroy Forbes, Clines Hanson-Whitely, Alecia Whitely,
Terriann Dixon and Chesan Cain-Miller

2. Roles of computers in teaching and learning
Integrating computers into the curriculum
Presenter: Euroy Forbes

3. Roles of Computer in Teaching and Learning
Computers help children to:
be in control of their experience
set their own pace
select the level of challenge with which they feel comfortable
use all of their senses to extract information

4. Computers help the development of:
Fundamental skills Good educational software enables children to develop and practice a broad range skills.
Emotional skills
By using a computer children develop self-confidence and self-esteem.
Social skills
In the classroom setting when their friends or parents are available, children often prefer working with one or two partners over working alone, which leads to the development of social skills.

5. Computers benefit children with special needs...
Computers have proven extremely beneficial to kids with certain speech, audio and motor limitation. What they achieve through using a computer enhances their self-esteem and provides them with a greater sense of control and engagement with the world.

6. To replace writing on the chalkboard/white board:
Enables the students to read what has been written more easily than instructor's handwriting.
This can then be saved as a record of class then ed to the whole class.
Students can work in small groups and use laptop computers to take notes on their group's discussion.

7. Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?
Technology is everywhere, touching almost every part of our lives, our communities, our homes. Yet most schools lag far behind when it comes to integrating technology into classroom learning.
Many are just beginning to explore the true potential technology offers for teaching and learning.
Properly used, technology will help students acquire the skills they need to survive in a complex, highly technological knowledge-based economy.

8. Why Integrate Technology into the Curriculum?
Effective technology integration must happen across the curriculum in ways that research shows deepen and enhance the learning process. In particular, it must support four key components of learning:
active engagement
participation in groups
frequent interaction and feedback
connection to real-world experts.

9. Effective technology integration is achieved when the use of technology is routine and transparent and when technology supports curricular goals.
Technology changes the way teachers teach, offering educators effective ways to reach different types of learners and assess student understanding through multiple means.
It also enhances the relationship between teacher and student.
Technology helps make teaching and learning more meaningful and fun.

10. Integrated learning systems Presenter: Clines Hanson-Whitely
Software Selection
Presenter: Clines Hanson-Whitely

11. Integrated Learning Systems
The Integrated learning system provides much more comprehensive approach and covers curriculum areas for a range of grades.

12. Integrated Learning Systems
The Integrated learning system is highly
interactive for learner.
The Integrated learning system increases the
variety of learning experiences.
It gives teachers greater control instructing
students experience.
Provide feed back to students to increase
retention and understanding.

13. Software Selection Choose a software package with accessible
knowledge.
Analyze your needs to select the best suited
software.
Talk to your peers and see which software work
best for them.

14. Presenter: Alecia Whitely
Hypermedia
Multimedia Kits
Presenter: Alecia Whitely

15. Hypermedia
Hypermedia refers to “linked media.”
The entire approach of Hypermedia is that it is exploratory in nature.
As such, hypermedia is “interactive, user controlled, and often determined by a user’s interest and curiosity”

16. Hypermedia allows the user to access multiple forms of media and text instantly and use those forms interchangeably and interactively.

17. Hypermedia incorporates images, sounds, and video into the document.
This allows for a more graphical interface to information.
Most web pages should be considered Hypermedia instead of simply Hypertext.

18. Benefits of Hypermedia in the classroom
Increase motivation
Students’ control over their learning
experiences
Ability to meet demands of students of
different abilities.

20. Multimedia
Multimedia simply means “multiple media” or “a combination of media.”
The media can be still pictures, sound, motion video, animation, and/or text items combined in a product whose purpose is to communicate information.

21. Multimedia Kit
A multimedia kit is a set of teaching materials that have been designed using instructional technology and are ready at hand to be used in the classroom.

22. Multimedia Kit
A multimedia kit can have:
CD’s
Maps (image)
DVD’s
Speakers

23. Multimedia and Hypermedia
The combination of videos and audios with text makes them multimedia; the ability to get from one media element to another makes them hypermedia.

24. Presenters: Terriann Dixon & Chesan Cain-Miller
Interactive Media
Virtual Reality
Expert System
Presenters: Terriann Dixon & Chesan Cain-Miller

25. What is Interactive Media?
Interactive media normally refers to products and services on digital computer-based systems which respond to the user’s actions by presenting content such as text, moving image, animation, video, audio and video games.

26. The Effects of Interactive Media in Learning
Interactive media is helpful in following four development dimensions in which young children learn:
social and emotional
language development
cognitive and general knowledge
approaches toward learning.
Using educational computer software in a learning environment helps children increase communication skills and their attitudes about learning.

27. The Effects of Interactive Media in Learning
Children who use educational computer software are often found using more complex speech patterns and higher levels of verbal communication.
A study found that basic interactive books that simply read a story aloud and highlighted words and phrases as they were spoken were beneficial for children with lower reading abilities.
Children have different styles of learning and interactive media helps children with visual, verbal, auditory, and tactile learning styles.

28. Benefits of interactive media in the classroom
Classroom Collaboration
Replacing the traditional blackboard, interactive whiteboards have
grown in popularity in schools.
Fun and Engaging
Using interactive technology can boost engagement and motivation in
the classroom.

29. Benefits of interactive media in the classroom
Encouraging Independence
Interactive technology empowers students to discover their own
resources and take control of their learning
Flexibility and adaptability
Interactive technology is extremely beneficial to classes of different
abilities as it plays a key role in differentiation.

30. What is Virtual Reality?
Virtual reality is the creation of a virtual environment presented to our senses in such a way that we experience it as if we were really there.
It has both entertaining and serious uses.

31. Effects of Virtual Reality on Learning
Most students respond to a visual style of learning which virtual reality is more than able to provide.
The graphical nature of this technology combined with an explorative approach, physical interaction and an intuitive interface makes it an ideal vehicle for delivering information to a mixed ability classroom.

32. Virtual Reality in the classroom
There are two ways of using virtual reality in the classroom:
traditional desktop set up in which the student explores a virtual
environment using a computer, keyboard and mouse.
The second set up is fully immersive and requires the student to wear a
head mounted display and data glove for interaction within a virtual
environment.

33. Virtual Reality in the classroom

34. What is expert system?
An Expert System uses human knowledge captured in a computer to solve problems that ordinarily require human expertise.

35. Components of the expert system
Every expert system consists of two principal parts:
Knowledge base
Reasoning or inference

36. Purpose of the expert system in learning
People can learn using expert systems by:
asking questions
reading the answers
asking the system to give feedback.

37. Advantages of the expert system
The knowledge base can be updated
and extended.
They can contain a large amount of
information

38. Disadvantages of the expert system
They are not able to learn from the
mistakes
They cannot creatively come with new
solutions for the issues
It’s not easily achievable to mimic the
exact knowledge of an expert in the
computer program.