1. CHAPTER 8
Using Media to Engage Learners

2. Trichelle Small
Claudette Mc Pherson
Monique Toby
Wynnell Caesar
Shonelle Adams

3. This chapter introduces the technologies and media that
can support and enhance student learning:
- be used to promote student learning in a dynamic way
- make lessons more realistic and engaging
- involve learners with instructional materials
- lead students to construct displays and dioramas
- present students with manipulatives and worksheets in digital
form

4. Instruction using this model utilizes:
Learning Centers
Instructional Modules
Manipulatives
Print Materials
Display Surfaces
Exhibits

6. - are self-contained environments designed to promote
individual or small-group learning focused on a specific
topic
- can be simple (to promote student discussion or hands on
activities)
- can be complex (connected computers for collaborative
research or problem solving)
- address the issue of educating students of varying levels of
abilities

7. Advantages
Limitations

8. These methods of Integration were identified:
- Skill Centers
- Remedial Centers
- Enrichment Centers
- Computer and Learning Centers

10. - are self-contained instructional units for use by a single/small
group of learners without a teacher’s presence.
- facilitates learning without constant supervision
- must be used to promote student learning in a dynamic way
- are presented in printed, audiovisual or computer-based form

11. - gain student’s attention
- introduce a topic
- present new content
- provide practice with feedback activities
- test for mastery.
- assign follow-up remediation or enrichment
- all instructional management procedures must be provided

12. Rationale
Objectives
Entry Test
Multimedia Material
Learning Activities
Practice with Feedback
Self Test
Post-Test

13. - a networked set of computer work stations with
software/online access to a particular set of sequential lessons
or modules.
- are integrated and correlated
- all tests are matched to the activities and objectives
- management software gathers and stores all information
about student progress and supplies teachers/administrators
with reports

14. Advantages
Limitations

17. These are objects that:
- can be viewed and handled in a learning setting.
- attract students’ attention and promote learning by handling
and inspection

18. Real Objects that may be used as they are or may be modified
to enhance the instruction. (e.g. coins, tool, plants)
Models are three dimensional representations of real objects
and can be modified (e.g. using color) to highlight important
details and can be taken apart and re-constructed
Mock-ups are simplified versions of complex devices that
highlight essential elements and eliminate distracting details.

20. - is a collection of teaching/learning materials that involve
more than one type of medium organized around a single
topic.
- more especially real objects, models and mock-ups

21. By Teacher/s:
- for presentations (allows students to touch, observe,
. experiment, wonder and decide)
By Student/s:
- for individual or small-group work

22. Advantages
Limitations

23. Manipulatives are best suited for instruction that guides
students to learn by:
- Discovery
- Exploration

25. - are materials presented on paper whether fiction or
non-fiction e.g. books, booklets, worksheets etc.
- textbooks are the most utilized form

26. Advantages
Limitations

27. Printed materials are used to present information:
- for discussions or questioning (in-class reading activities)
- for tests (handouts)
- for clarification after a lesson (reference book/magazine)

29. - are surfaces used to exhibit visual materials in a way that
allows all students to view them simultaneously
- are used to support the verbal communication

30. Chalkboards and Whiteboards
Electronic Whiteboards
Bulletin Boards
Cloth Boards
Magnetic Boards
Flip Charts

31. Chalkboards (Blackboards) are:
- the most commonly used display surface in the
classroom
- found in a variety of colours
Whiteboards (Multipurpose /Marker Boards) :
- use a special erasable marker and felt eraser
- not suitable for video/Power Point slides
- some may be used as a magnetic board
Both are used to draw visuals or post up pictures and other
images.

32. Electronic Whiteboards:
- allows you to capture any information written on them in
digital form
- works in conjunction with a computer
- may contain multiple screens or frames
There are two types:
- Standard
- Interactive

33. These are:
- made of material that allows sharp fasteners to be used
without damaging the surface
- surfaces on which brief news, announcements, etc. are
posted for public notice
They are used for:
- Decoration
- Motivation
- Instruction

34. These are:
- made cloth (flannel, felt or hook and loop) stretched over
a sturdy backing material (plywood, masonite or heavy
cardboard)
- boards that use course materials to attach and present
visuals

35. These are:
- metal surfaces that use magnets to secure visuals in
place

36. These are:
- large sheets of paper fastened together at the top and
mounted to an easel
- arranged in sequential order
- most commonly used to present key illustrations/words
that compliment a presentation/lesson
- use illustrations and words as reminders of next point

38. These :
- are collections of various objects and visuals designed
to form an integrated whole for instructional purposes
- may include real objects, models and mock-ups
They can be:
- Simple (set up on a table, shelf or desk)
- Complex (a booth or entire bookcase)

39. Field Trips
Displays
Dioramas

40. These are:
- pleasure trips outside of the classroom to study real
processes, people and objects
- trips that require lead-in (prepares) and follow-up
(reflection) activities
These trips do not:
- always present students with the opportunity to
manipulate phenomena
- necessarily have to take students outside of the
classroom

41. These are presentations that:
- consist of an array of objects, visuals and printed
materials
- foster retention and sharpening of visual skills

42. These are:
- static displays that consists of a three dimensional
foreground and flat background to create a realistic
scene or setting
- designed to reproduce past/present scenes and depict
future ones
- used to illustrate prehistoric and geological formations