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The
most obvious benefit of DVD-ROMs is that they combine the increased storage
capacity of the DVD-Video with the computing capabilities of the CD-ROM,
including search function, complex menus, and the ability to create and
bookmark specific learning pathways. One benefit of using DVD
in the classroom is DVD-ROMs instruct students how to locate, use,
assess, and manipulate information. Students can not access
the technology by themselves. Both
teachers and students can access the same information for interaction,
thereby promoting communication and teamwork.
Students can also quickly locate and evaluate information of what they
want, and present useful information with their own opinions and conclusions
either in oral or written form. Students
are exposed to media in their everyday life.
The internet, TV, and video become their methods of absorbing
information. DVD technology opens a
visual window to content far richer than print. DVD-ROMs renovate educational
content into an engaging world of stories, facts, ideas, pictures, and sounds
that students can actively explore. For
example, students are studying a particular period of time in history,
instead of looking at textbook’s pictures and listening to teacher’s
instruction, it is still hard for students to have a concrete meaningful
understanding of the lesson.
Eventually, it becomes just a memorization. However, by integrating DVD-ROMs into
instruction, students can see the images and hear the audio of a particular
period of time in the history. They
can study it, challenge their mind with inquiry, and search questions for
their own answers. DVD-ROMs motivate
and empower students’ learning intellectually. Teachers can also use DVD-ROMs to
facilitate, encourage, discuss, and mentor the information for the students
to study. The third
but not the least benefit of using DVD-ROMs in the classroom is to provide dynamic
interactive navigation and searching features that allow for nonlinear access
to content. Also, DVD-ROMs are much safer
than navigation of Internet and faster than traditional video tape. Students can quickly navigate to the minute
segments they want to share, instead of having to fast forward and rewind a
videotape. That is a saving of
valuable instructional time. Similarly, students can jump to specific
relevant pieces of information as they question and explore a topic. Instead
of reading a document or viewing a video in a more traditional, linear
manner, they not only can, but are encouraged to create their own uniquely
personal pathways through educational content. |
EDUCATIONAL BENEFITS
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