TUGASAN 4 KPT 6044

TUGASAN 4 KPT 6044
CONTINUING MY PROFESIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Demonstrating Professional Knowledge
Question 1
Discuss media literacy, including the aspects of consuming and producing media.
Media literacy is the ability to understand how mass media work, how they produce meanings, how they are organized, and how to use them wisely. Today’s students must be good consumers and producers of wide variety of media. This are the following of consuming and producing media by a media literate students:
Access: Media literate students are able to locate and use information from a variety of sources for a variety of purposes.
Media literate students
A. Identify the characteristics and components of mass media organizations and explain how those organizations operate (ie, newspapers, radio stations, television stations, websites)
B. Know various types of communications media and their main formats and characteristics (ie, print, visual, audio, video, multimedia)
C. Recognize that different communication media have different purposes and that different types of communications media affect coverage of events and issues
D. Determine appropriateness of sources for particular purposes
Enjoy: Media literate students understand that individuals have different relationships with the media.
Media literate students
A. Explain how people use communications media and mass media in their personal and public lives
B. Identify personal media practices related to both communications media and mass
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Explain personal media preferences related to both communications media and mass media
D. Identify those elements of different types of media which appeal to them

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Interpret: Media literate students construct personal meaning from media experiences.
Media literate students
A. Use strategies appropriate to different communications media to comprehend a variety of media products
B. Recognize that media messages are open to multiple interpretations and explain how audience members interpret meanings
C. Identify techniques used by the mass media to influence or appeal to a particular audience
D. Explain the complex relationship among the audience, the communications media and the media-maker
Analyze: Media literate students understand the historical and contemporary ways in which the media constructs messages that influence people’s personal and public lives.
Media literate students
A. Identify ways in which media-makers use symbols, images, sounds and conventions to construct messages for a variety of purposes
B. Identify the political, social, cultural, economic, aesthetic, and educational purposes of media messages
C. Consider the political, social, cultural, economic, aesthetic, and educational influences on the construction of media messages
D. Explain how communication of ideas is related to the media, techniques, and processes used to construct messages
E. Explain the role of the mass media in society
Evaluate: Media literate students use a variety of criteria to evaluate media messages and productions created by both themselves and others.
Media literate students
A. Apply content criteria (effectiveness, validity, reliability and accuracy, clarity, sincerity, credibility and bias) to media messages.
B. Apply aesthetic criteria (appropriateness of media selection, use of color, form and line, effective integration of images and text, and use of conventions) to media productions.

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Produce: Media literate students use a variety of media and formats for different purposes in communicating information and ideas effectively to multiple audiences.
Media literate students
A. Select appropriate media for audience and purpose
B. Use processes and techniques appropriate to selected media and format to create effective products
C. Incorporate multimedia into informal and formal presentations
D. Use hardware and software efficiently and effectively in media production
Question 2
Discuss the advantages, limitation and instructional applications of multimedia in learning .
Multimedia is the sequential or simultaneous use of a variety of media in a presentation or self-study program. Multimedia presentations will be performed by using computers that is included incorporate text, audio, and still or animated images.
The advantages of multimedia in learning :
1. Interactive.
Multimedia engage learners to make choices about moving within the material in meaningful ways, thus fulfilling the requirement of learner participation
(the R of the ASSURE model)
2. Individualization.
Multimedia allow students to over see the rate and sequence of their learning, giving them more control over the outcomes.
3. Special needs.
4. Multimedia are effective with special learners such as at risk students, students with diverse ethnic backgrounds, students with disabilities, and gifted and talented students. Multimedia accommodate student needs by allowing them to proceed through the instruction at an appropriate pace for each individual learner.
5. Information management.
Multimedia can cover a growing knowledge base associated with the information explosion. Multimedia can manage all types of information at the instructor’s and student’s disposal.
6. Multisensory experiences.

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Multimedia provides diverse learning experiences. These can employ a variety of instructional strategies suitable for basic instruction, remediation or enrichment.
The limitations of multimedia in learning.
1. Availability and cost of material.
Materials can be difficult to obtain or priced too high to permit their use.
2. Storage of materials.
Finding storage space for a wide variety of multimedia materials can pose problems.
Instructional applications of multimedia in learning is that the educators are using multimedia to bring into their classrooms real-world. For example to provide a contextual framework important for learning. Multimedia and tools like the internet gives instant access to millions of resources.These materias can be called up instantly for cooperative learning, critical thinking, discussions, problem solving and self-study.
Question 3
Discuss four types of learning centers and describe one specific example of each.
A learning center is a station set aside for a particular learning activity. Learning centers can be designed for individual use or group learning. They can consist of countless activities and subjects, including math, science, music, performance, language skills. Learning centers can be divided into four types: Skill centers, Interest centers, Remedial Centers and ,Enrichment
Centers.
1. Skill centers are more structured than enrichment centers, but they also focus on improving understanding of a lesson previously taught. These centers provide opportunities for students to master important skills. Examples of skill centers include practicing math problems and formulas, recalling the steps in the scientific method, or reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.
2. Interest Centers are the least structured and most creative type of learning center.
The activities allow students to find their own answers to questions and to come up with questions of their own. The biggest strength of discovery centers is that they permit students to investigate topics according to their own interests. For example, discovery center activities after a lesson on ancient civilizations might include a table

TUGASAN 4 KPT 6044 with building blocks and small figurines for students to arrange as they see fit into cities and historical battle scenes.
3. Remedial Centers focus on each student's individual learning style. These centers help students develop understanding of topics through auditory, tactile, and visual methods. A learning-style learning center might include a visual representation such as a map or an illustration, an auditory component such as a recording or an audiobook excerpt, and a tactile activity, such as an enactment of an event or concept.
4. Enrichment centers focus on the main objective of a lesson, offering ways for students to enrich their understanding the lesson. For example, if the lesson previously taught was on the life cycle of plants, enrichment activities might include viewing plant samples under a microscope and watching a video that shows and explains the cycle in more detail.