Odintsova S.A., Bushuyeva E.G.

Buketov Karaganda State University, Kazakhstan

Didactic principles of using multimedia technologies in the system of education

Multimedia technologies are continuously penetrating into the different spheres of educational activity. It is promoted by external factors, connected with extensive informatization of the society and the necessity of adequate training of school students, and internal factors, connected with spreading computers such as multimedia means and software in comprehensive education institutions as well as accepting state and interstate programmes of informatization of education. In the most cases application of multimedia technologies makes positive influence on intensification of teachers’ work and effectiveness of school students’ study. Improving the effectiveness of learning on the base of multimedia technologies depends on support of didactic principles:

1.     Principle of systemacy requires streamlining didactic material, its planning in accordance with bases, rational division of material onto sense parts and stepped mastering it. Concerning computer learning this principle:

-         proposes working out and determination of formalized model of a subject by designing adequate computer program;

-         gives opportunity to differentiate database of programs into topic group and even the whole courses; it is more preferable than separate fragmented good programs;

-         causes a question about forms of using multimedia technologies in teaching and learning process, ratio of new and traditional forms of learning.

2. Principle of activity (independence). Students’ independence is a key to the solution of modern issues of comprehensive education. It is necessary to involve students in self-activity in the form of self-directed learning, self-up-brining, self-regulation.

Multimedia technologies actively involve students in teaching process. One of the important preconditions of improvement – dialogue of student with computer, in the process of which there are including knowledge in the system of activity. The main problem of building educational dialogue with the means of multimedia technologies (computer, smart board) – overcoming requirements of excessive getting student answers, which are usually come to either to the choice of some variants either to introduction of a key word.

Principle of independence requires having the field of independence, which allows a student to choose his own way of solution, estimate its effectiveness. By this fact there is the right of student choice. He can answer the question in his own way, and then to compare the answer with the sample.

  During this organization of teaching process school students learn to reflect, analyze their work, assess it, compare with the sample. Feeling of satisfaction from the solution of the task brings to formation of need in learning, creativity, self-directed work on getting new knowledge.

3.     Principle of stepped overwhelming the difficulties.

By the application of multimedia technologies it is necessary carefully to select tasks, offered by the students, to think over the content of a dialogue between computer and a student. Tasks must be according the level of knowledge of a students, exercises – various. Complexity of offered by the programme tasks may be changed at elementary stage of the work. This fact allows teaching at the level which corresponds a student’s level of knowledge, releasing him from solution of too easy or too difficult problems. By this fact there must be dosed not only the difficulty but help.

4.     Principle of link of theory with practice. This principle shows that the importance of knowledge is being aware by its meaning in the real life. So, application of multimedia technologies in teaching and learning process let change the balance of theoretical and practical aspects in education to the side of practice, because they own unique opportunities of modeling difference phenomena and processes.  

Advantage of education on the base of application of multimedia technologies is that learning takes practical aspect: dialogue character of work, modeling opportunities predispose to the learning in the form of problem solving with practical aspect. By this it is advisable to use methods of projecting and modeling.

5.     Principle of individualization. Individualization of education based on using multimedia technologies connects with interactive character of the work and presence of computer at students’ desks as well as smart board. There might be more deep and sharp account of individual features of students by means of multimedia technologies. There might be determined the level of training of a school student with the help of pretesting and in accordance with this level there might be present the theoretical material, issues and problems as well as tips and help. In learning weak students the explanation of theoretical information is simplified, questions and problems are simplified, help has a character of direct tip. Learning strong students is conducted at the more complex level; theory is deeply  presented, there is presented creative problems, demanded inventiveness and intuition, and help has indirect character of tip.

With the help of multimedia means it is possible to diagnose gaps in students’ knowledge, his personal features and to build learning in accordance with it. Every student gets an opportunity to study at a speed which is applicable for a certain student. The students is then put in the stage of the higher level or lower level of study depending on quality of students’ answers. Moreover these levels are corrected, they depend on degree of mastering a potion of learning material. By the way, different variants of multimedia means allow choosing a learning software that is corresponds individual peculiarities of a student.

6.     Principle of effectiveness. In traditional learning this principle causes a question about industry of didactic work of a teacher, rational using of time at a lesson.

Implementing multimedia means in teaching and learning process enlarges the problem of optimization of learning with the help of new aspects:

1.     Methodological improving software.

2.     Problem solution of rate and interlink between traditional learning and learning on the base of using multimedia technologies, determination of the place of a teacher.

3.     The opportunity of involving multimedia technologies in organizational forms of traditional education (lesson system).

The main condition of successive education is the interest if school students to the learned subject, the process of learning and its result. This interest connects with a plenty of factors: content of a subject, level of its complexity, organization of learning process of teacher’s encouragement and punishments,  personal qualities of a teacher, his pedagogical mastery, system of values of a students, his close environment, parents, interrelationships in the class, social order in training on the trends of science, presented by certain subject. Organization of learning process with the help of using multimedia technologies, change of character of student’s study at a lesson promotes motivation to the study.

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