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Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section One - How to Use This Module

The important question we address in this module is: How can teachers use popular media, textbooks, and computer

technologies to create a learning environment that equips learners with the knowledge and skills to live and work thoughtfully in a changing South Africa?

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Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section Three - Using Popular Print Media in the Classroom

In this section we will explore how popular print media – in particular newspapers and magazines – can be used to improve classroom learning and teaching.

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Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section Four - Using Popular Electronic Media in Teaching

Popular electronic media provide teachers with excellent resources for improving language skills, such as listening and speaking. Like newspapers and magazines, radio and television also provide a rich resource base for enriching the teaching of content knowledge in different learning areas.

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Courseware

Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section Five - Understanding Popular Media

How can we help learners to develop the ability to respond to media more critically? This section aims to enable you to do just that. In Section 5.1 we introduce you

to two approaches teachers can use to teach media literacy. We will call these approaches – that, you will notice, have important overlaps – a MAP approach and a Keys Concepts approach.

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Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section Six - Using Textbooks in Teaching

Textbooks are very useful educational resources. But they must be used well. In order to make the best use of textbooks within a media-rich teaching style, we need to understand how textbooks differ from the popular media resources we will use in our classroom.

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Using Media in Teaching: Learning Guide. Section Seven - Using Computer Technologies in Schools

The current optimism about computers makes it easier to find funding for projects that involve computers than it is to find sources willing to contribute to teacher

development or basic infrastructure, such as toilets, chairs or chalk. Computers and the Internet are 'cool' and easy to generate enthusiasm about. As with television, though, we need to view such enthusiasm for computers critically: we can't ignore the impact that computer technologies are having on our society, but we shouldn't believe they will solve all our problems.

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Working in Classrooms. Reading 8 - Amusing ourselves to death

Although both extracts about television, they also present a set of arguments about information, learning and education.

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Readings/Reference Materials

Educational Technology for Effective Teaching: A Handbook for Educators

This course on educational technology comprises of 16 units covering different aspects of educational technology as a field of study. Educational technology is a combined application of three major sciences for classroom activities. These are Physical Sciences, Social Sciences, and Managerial Sciences.

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Courseware

Education as Change

This accredited journal publishes contributions from any field of education. While the emphasis is on empirical research, theoretical or methodological papers, review articles, short communications, book reviews and letters containing fair commentary on previously published articles will also be considered. Priority is given to articles that are relevant to Africa or that address cross-cultural topics, and to contributions addressing educational issues of social change and development.

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Readings/Reference Materials

Journal of Education

The Journal of Education is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education. The journal aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of the field of education. A general focus of the journal is on curriculum. Curriculum is understood in a wide and interdisciplinary sense, encompassing curriculum theory, history, policy and development at all levels of the education system (e.g. schooling, adult education and training, higher education). Contributions that span the divide between theory and practice are particularly welcome. Although principally concerned with the social sciences, the journal encourages contributions from a wider field.

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Journal Articles

Information literacy