THE ROLE OF EDUCATIONAL MEDIA IN LEARNING – TEACHING PROCESS

 

In our complex world, students need to learn more and better from their environment because the possibility of learning from direct experience (i.e. the direct action or touch of the objects or learning phenomena by students) cannot exist in all areas. Therefore, the way of teaching these phenomena is very complicated. The goal of such teaching is to enable students to experience scientific phenomena up to a great extent by their direct (or at least close) involvement. When students acquire more experience in their life, they will be able to successfully increase their findings and understandings about the environment around. On experience, the Holy Prophet has stated, "The experience is higher than knowledge." Therefore, we can grant more possibilities to students by selecting and using educational media correctly and thoughtfully. The Educational media are all instruments and possibilities that can make easier, better, long-lasting and effective learning conditions in the educational environment. These possibilities include tools (electric instruments), materials (transparent sheets, films, etc.), and educational conditions (film shows, scientific cruise).
The educational media are not new; however, the media have existed since the beginning of teaching. It goes without saying that the first media were teacher's explanations, blackboard and chucks. After that, pictures, recordings, radio and television, video and computer created a new way in teaching process.
Not long ago, the media were called "audio-visual educational aids" (such as electric instruments like projectors), but in fact the educational media are in higher ranks than educational aids. They can affect learning process if appropriately used. Media are necessary to make effective communication in teaching. Now the educational media are inseparable parts of teaching and learning process. They are not tools or materials to support education anymore; they are educational data by themselves. The role of educational aids in learning- teaching process lies on the state of transferring concepts.

Researches have shown that good educational aids have effective role in transferring, inferring and affecting the concepts. The most important of them are:
1.    They make a tangible basis to think ahead, create concepts, and  cause students to resort less to abstract concepts.
2.    They create interest in students' learning and turn their attention to educational topics.
3.    They provide necessary basis for gradual and supplementary learning and make it perpetual.
4.    They give real and actual experience to students and motivate then for more activities.

5.    They provide cohesive thoughts in learning process.
6.    They are effective in the development and growth of concepts in student's mind and help the development of words semantic domain.
7.    They transfer rapid educational meaning and concept more.
8.    They provide students with some experience that cannot be acquired from other ways, so they increase their mental development, deep understanding, and learning level. 

                             BY MABAU SEBASTIAN,M.