Learning is a process to acquire knowledge. It needs hard work and sometimes will make students frustrated and get bored, so that they lose their attention to a lesson. In this case, the use of media in teaching- learning process is needed to attract students’ attention and to make teaching- learning activities more interesting and also effective. The use of media in teaching- learning process is not a new thing. Many teachers know that media will be helpful. Media give students something new, but not all of teachers know how to implement it correctly, so sometimes media disturb learning process instead of helping students in learning process.
Media are the
means for transferring or delivering messages. Li-Ling Kuo states that a medium
is called the educational medium when the medium transfers message for teaching
(Li-Ling. 1996). He adds that the use of media is important and it is
impossible to coordinate teaching with learning without using media (Li-
Ling.1996). Media are flexible because they can be used for all level of
students and in all subjects. Teaching media also can encourage students to
take more responsibility for and control over their own learning, engage in
joint planning of the syllabus, and take longer-term perspectives on their own
learning (Masterman. 1999). Since media give many advantages, a teacher should
consider a medium to be used in teaching- learning process. Edgar Dale theorized in his Cone of Experience model that learners retain
more knowledge by what they “do” as opposed to what is “heard”, “read” or “observed”
(Dale 1969).
People
generally remember
According these
statement, we can conclude that media is very useful to makes the teaching learning process easier, more interesting, and
more efficient. It could raise the students’ interest of the lesson and media is
important to lead students’ attention. Besides that, Edgar Dale’s research show
that by using media student will be
able to remember lesson deeper and longer than learning without media. So,
media not only can increase student understanding, but also it won’t makes students frustrated and get bored. Then, media
can enhance their thinking skill in order they improve
themselves from know nothing to know something, from know something to
understand the concept. In addition, the teachers will be easy to
explain their material because media help the teacher
to give clear information to the students. Finally, we can use media in
every time and everywhere.
References:
Li- Ling KUO, Christine. 1991. The Importance of
Educational Media in Teaching. Buletin of Social Education, Volume 20, pp. 61-88.
Masterman, Len. 1999. 18 Principles of Media
Education. http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/teaching_backgrounders/media_literacy/18_principles.cfm
Dale,
Edgar. Audio-Visual Methods in Teaching, 3rd ed., Holt, Rinehart & Winston,
New York, 1969, p. 108
