Lesson 15: Understanding Hypermedia

Lesson 15 talks about, Hypermedia. Hypermedia is nothing but multimedia, but this time packaged as an educational computer software where information is presented and student activities are integrated in a virtual learning environment. Most educational IT applications are hypermedia and these include:

·        Tutorial software packages

·        Knowledge webpages

·        Simulation instructional games

·        Learning project management

Characteristics of hypermedia applications

1.     Learner control- this means the learner makes his own decisions on the path, flow or events of instruction.

2.     Learner wide range of navigation routes- for the most part, the learner controls the sequence and pace of his path depending on his ability and motivation.

Discussion

1.     Hypermedia provides autonomous learning. How is this better than the traditional classroom learning, which often fails to consider the case of slow and poor individual learners?

ü Hypermedia is nothing but multimedia. It provides the information needed and also the activities to be made by the students to exercise their learning abilities. They have lesser chance to be left behind and greater chance to cope and pass, since there are provided tutorials for them to easily learn.

2.     How can the teacher help slow and poor learners using the traditional teaching methods?

ü They may conduct remedial classes for the slow and poor learners to cope with the studies.

3.     Hypermedia provides an atmosphere of search, exploration and discovery. How can the teacher provide such an environment in the traditional classroom?

ü Books can be used as source of learning. And the teacher may provide pictures, models, or mock-ups for the pupils to see the real structure of a thing.

My experience on this lesson was great because, i was able to know what hypermedia is. The reporter was good in presenting their report and i was able to learn from them.

As my reflection in this lesson, Hypermedia is very effective to use, it is very useful tool for a the teachers,it can use to motivate the learners and with the use of hypermedia,the teacher easily catch the attention of the students.

By using this hypermedia it is very important as a future teacher to use it properly and the teacher must have a wide knowledge on using this.