what are the effectiveness of media in schools?
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When used correctly, technology media are very effective as reinforcers for near-mastery material, introducing discussion topics, etc.\n\nMost people learn best when presented information repeatedly, in a variety of formats.
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Really, it depends on the pupil. \n\nHomeschooling provides more of a one on one education. Special needs can be paid closer attention to or help in a particular area can be attended. However home schooled students tend to lack social experience and a large cultural variety of peers. The student also misses out on opportunities such as student government, sports, or clubs.\n\nPublic school provides a variety of subjects and usually teaches them fairly well, in my experience. However class sizes tend to be larger and sometimes struggling students are over looked. Students usually have opportunities to take classes based on interests and their grades. There is usually a variety of culture at public schools and a large student body with peers. Socially, public school students blossom.\n\nPrivate school students usually receive excellent educations as the subjects tend to be slightly more advanced. Class sizes are usually smaller meaning struggling students get more help. Private schools tend to have better extracurriculars, because of tuition money. However, the student body may be limited and lacking in diversity. Often students who board at their school can receive a taste for college life and be more prepared than other students.
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not sure but cellphones and the internet sure do seem to have helped them travel faster. The younger generation is so inter-connected all it takes is only little spark of a rumor true or false and it just grows out of control and it's like everybody knows. I remember this thing a teacher did once to show how gossip travels and changes along the way. He whispered a rumor about someone in the first student's ear and told him to whisper into the next and so on and so on. By the time it got through all 30 kids it was a totally different rumor. Kids just added stuff and changed the whole message. It was a lot worse and totally untrue. I guess he was trying to teach kids not to spread rumors. They can really hurt people and there are usually not true.
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1. The learning climate. resources, comfort, confidence to make mistakes.\n2. the students learning style, Visual auditory or kinasthetic. Tasks that suit their learning style.\n3.Subject matter that is interesting and relevant.\n4. Inclusion. Students have the opportunity to access the curriculum what ever their need.\n\nIf you elaborate more on the question, I can help more.
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It is now as necessary as a pen or pencil.  The elementary school in my area not only have Smart boards, projectors, and Dell pcs in each classroom but also shared laptops between classrooms.  The problem is that they are not well maintained, locked down(software/antivirus/filtered) as much as they can be.  The other problem is that the 5th graders know more than the teachers as to how these freakin things work.  A couple of teachers couldn't even use the Smart board and used the black board the whole year!!\n\nThis is jus a tool NOT the answer for all the ills in the classroom.  Teachers and parents must be proactively involved in the child's education to make these become helpful tools.  School boards and teachers must provide the proper curriculum, teachers must be trained, and students must be guided properly to make it worth placing in classes.
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I'm confused whether you want a curriculum evaluation or an instructional evaluation based on curriculum.  So let me try both.\n\nAn effective curriculum evaluation will look at how the curriculum prepared the students for assessments (especially in light of NCLB), how it could be differentiated for various learning styles and learning groups, and how practical it was.  You also want to look at what outside resources, if any, were necessary to make the curriculum work in most situations.  Did the curriculum require additional training for the staff using it?  Was it user-friendly?\n\nInstructional evaluation based on curriculum is a little easier if you know the curriculum.  I've been evaluated befor by someone who did not understand the established curriculum, and things got pretty upsetting.  The evaluation should be looking for how well the instructor used the curriculum in class.  Did the instructor follow established guidelines about what should have been taught?  How well did the instructor differentiate for individual learners?  How comfortable was the instructor with the curriculum?\n\nI hope I didn't muddy the waters.  If I did, I apologize.
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I'd try PBS or A&E. A&E will often have "In the Classroom" programs. Hope that helped.
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We all learn in a variety of ways.  Some of us are more visual.  Others do best by listening.  Many of us, and I think our schools sometimes forget this, are best with physical activities.
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Info Tech can be used to spread literacy using video conference, one can reach out to even remote villages without comprising on the quality of teachers.\nInitiatives like ITC's e-choupal which provide free information to farmers about prices for their produce, weather info, etc. thus cutting out middle-men
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I don't think anybody learns anything in high school anymore. It's not really there to educate nowadays; it's just a system set in place to keep teenage kids from wandering the streets during the day - the government's way to try to cut down on vandalism and crime.
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Huge doses of\n1) Good knowledge for the subject content,\n2) the ability to engage the students in the subject\n3) Stir in with flexibility, creativity, follow-up, commitment, guidance. \n4 )Sprinkle in some humour in the mix
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a lot. They make the lesson more interesting and easier for the students to understand.
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Just an idea, you could start out with "Do any of you know the true effects of television and the internet of the youth of today. Then start to explain what you think or know. Good Luck Hope this is what you are looking for.
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we have a chapter on consumer awareness in our books from where u can have the theory\nfor creative work u can cut adds of " jagoo gharak"  from the news paper\nu can paste rappers of duplicate products\ngive impressive headings to ur project as teachers hardly read what is written in the project\nmake it look nice by using different colours
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Media Impact of Think Tank Education Publications 2001 \nby Eric Haas, Alex Molnar and Rafael Serrano \nEducation Policy Studies Laboratory \nArizona State University\n\nThis report examines the nature and scope  of the media coverage of education-related documents and education  spokespersons from the Heritage Foundation during 2001.  It is  the first in a series of reports on the impact of think tanks on  education policy.\n\nIn The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the New Policy  Elite, James Smith describes think tanks as “private,  nonprofit research groups that operate on the margins of this  nation’s formal political process.”1  The first think tanks appeared in the 1950s.  They proliferated in  the 1970s and 1980s.  Today, more than one thousand think tanks  operate in the United States.2\n\nThe Heritage Foundation is often considered the “General  Motors” of think tanks.3   Founded in 1973, it  is one of the largest and best-connected think tanks in the  United States.  Moreover, it is widely regarded as the think tank  most effective at getting media coverage for its publications,  policy proposals, and spokespersons.4  \n\n            The average American adult spends over two hours a  day watching, reading or listening to the news. 5  While Americans are often skeptical about news reports on  education, they nevertheless want the news media to cover  education more than it currently does.6  Therefore,  when the news media select the Heritage Foundation as a source on  education, they position it to play a prominent role in shaping  the education debate.7 \n\nSince Americans rely on the news  media as a primary source for information on education issues, they indirectly vest news  sources—in this case, the Heritage Foundation—with  the power to help define the terms of the debate.  It is not  that, through the selection of its sources, the news media tell  Americans what to think, so much as frame what to think  about.8   In other words, those education  issues defined by the public and policy makers as problems and  the types of solutions needed to address them are, to a large  extent, influenced by the sources selected by the news  media.9  follow the link below for rest of this article.\nhttp://www.asu.edu/educ/epsl/EPRU/documents/EPRU%202002-115/EPSL-0205-115-EPRU.htm
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Definitions of Communications media on the Web:\n\nThe nature of the communications medium has a direct impact on the extent and quality of dialogue between instructors and learners. Learning in a one-way television programme, for example, students can make internal (silent) responses only. Correspondence by mail allows two-way interaction - even slow and less spontaneous, but perhaps more thoughtful and reflective. The interactive nature of the medium is the major determinant of dialogue in the teaching-learning environment. ...\nhttp://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&defl=en&q=define:Communications+media&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title\nhttp://education.qld.gov.au/corporate/newbasics/html/curric-org/comm.html
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Positive impacts:\n\n* Computers enhance the learning experience (Presentations, Animations. E-learning, Lecture podcasting...)\n\n* Computers entertain us: games, breathtaking special effects in movies, better animations...\n\n* The modern generation is aware about the issues related to the "rest of the world" through computers\n\n* Computers help the modern generation to share their knowledge and views with others (blogs, Wikipedia, Yahoo! Answers)\n\n\nNegative Impacts\n\n* Many youngsters have become porn-freaks\n\n* Many youngsters get addicted to there computers - they stay inside and do not indulge in healthy outdoor activities, interaction with friends etc\n\n* Many feel that computers have made us a little lazy