Want to have an effective teaching strategy that would enable your students to become motivated to learn? Well, the answer is simple. Teachers can accomplish that goal by using hypermedia technology in education. By using this, students can store the knowledge and information they learned in their long-term memory and increase their memory retention.
Hypermedia makes level the playing among students of varying abilities and enhances collaborative learning. Students can also increase their self-motivation for the learning is more realistic. Using audio, video, graphics, and hyperlinks, this learning is new to students and it is not the teacher who is only going to discuss the lesson over and over. This style of teaching also encourages the students to share and express what they know. Experiential learning is emphasized in using hypermedia technology for it is the students who will formulate their knowledge on their own. It develops their critical and creative thinking, as well as their ability to analyze and interpret information effectively. Amazingly, it also increases their comprehension and application of the lesson.
Not only on the students’ part that this style is effective, but also on the part of the teachers. It can also help them to improve their knowledge about the lesson that they teach and it can develop their originality and unique technique in teaching. Also, this will aid them to execute the lesson well. Of course, hypermedia technology is only a guide on their teaching. But the ones who are going to develop teaching strategies are none other than them. Having involved with the use of technology in teaching is not only students’ success because they learn in a different way; but it is more successful on the teachers because they provided their students an extraordinary way to learn. Students usually get bored when learning, but this time, it’s not. They will enjoy learning and gain their insights and ideas.
Students nowadays are really engaged in technology and most of the time, they abuse it. As educators, let’s show them that technology is not only use for their leisure time, for social networking, or for encoding something. But let them see the functional use of technology and how it will help them learn and become competent in the future.
In our fast-changing world, everything transforms so fast. We must be updated to create an innovation on our teaching. The more aware the teacher is, the more effective he is.
By: Marie Buena S. Bunsoy
