Media & Learning

What do you think about this question?,
Does media influence learning?
Clark (2001) describes media as vehicles that deliver instruction but does not influence achievement.
As cited in Clark(2001), Kozma states that "media can be devned by their technology, their symbol systems and their processing capability (p. 139)
What do you think?

Reference
Clark, R.E. (Ed.). (2001). Learning from media: Arguments, analysis, and evidence. Greenwich, CT: Information Age.

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Permalink Reply by RAHMAT HIDAYAT on July 3, 2009 at 7:20am: I think the media will improve side on high technology. Like the facebook become biggest one use by all people.
Because it's easy to use and people like it. "The Media Learning" will became like that, easy to use by everyone, everywhere and every time.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Berta Hayes Capo on July 3, 2009 at 9:27am: Both Lev Vygotsky and Jerome Bruner link the development of our species intellect with social tools (Driscoll, 2005). If media is being used for communication, then it becomes a social tool and therefore, should influence cognition because it is no longer a passive vehicle.

Reference
Driscoll, M. P. (2005). Psychology of Learning for Instruction (3rd ed.). Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RONNIE PASIGUI on July 5, 2009 at 10:55pm: It seems to me that any change in media / medium of instruction can directly or indirectly influence the achievement of a learner. This is very basic psychological and cognitive principle.

If instructional mediums do not influence achievement, what for changing mediums of instruction? Otherwise, teachers / educators do not bother themselves designing and conceptualizing a new medium.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Jon Kruithof on August 12, 2009 at 10:41am: This also falls in line with McLuhan's thinking about how the medium is the message. Humans tend to be contextual, so the context in which instruction is delivered is important.

Having looked at media and multimedia forms of instruction, it seems Kozma's viewpoint has more supporters, although that doesn't make it right.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by George Siemens on July 7, 2009 at 12:00pm: Hi Bev - I'm inclined to sidestep the debate and instead appeal to Gibson's concept of affordances (action potential) of different media/technologies.; ▶ Reply to This