ROLE OF MEDIA IN EDUCATION

PRESENTED BY

IRFAN ALIMASOOD AHMAD

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION MEDIA TYPES OF MEDIA EDUCATION MEDIA EDUCATION OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY ROLE OF PRINT MEDIA IN EDUCATION ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN EDUCATION CONCLUSION

INTRODUCTION Media is everywhere, it has become a part of our daily

life.

The media play a dominant role in the learning process.

Media has potential to shape personalities and change the way we perceive and understand the world .

Education and Media are integral part of learning. They form a person and transform society.

MEDIAThe word Media comes from the

Latin plural of Medium.

Media may refer to communications.

Communication tools are used to store and deliver information or

data.

TYPES OF MEDIA

Print Media

Newspapers ,

Magazines , Books

and other printed

material.

Electronic Media

Radio , Television , Internet , Cinema

etc.

EDUCATION

M.K Gandhi said, “By education, I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the Child and man’s body, mind and spirit.”

The word ‘Education’ has its origin from two Latin words Educare (Educere) and

Educatum. Educare means to bring up or draw out and Educatum means the act of

teaching or training.

Education is the formation of an individual to understand and perceive things in a

deeper way.

MEDIA EDUCATION

The Media is the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.

Media Education is the process through which the individual become media literate – able to critically understand the nature, techniques and impacts of media messages and production.

Media used for educational purposes is called Educational Media or academic communication.

OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

To know and avoid the negative impact of media on education

and transform or change them into positive impact so

that media can inform, educate,

entertain and persuade people in a

more responsible manner.

ROLE OF PRINT MEDIA IN EDUCATION The role of Print Media in the process of education is of

special importance.

Print Media like Newspapers, Journals and Magazines are the basic oldest channels of communication between one source to other.

Print Media are being printed in every regional language to facilitate, the readers to get information and knowledge in ones own mother tongue.

Newspapers

Fr. Francis Arackal said, “Newspapers are common

man’s university”.

Through newspapers, we can get news ,

information, and we can learn our National

Language , and English Newspapers are very

helpful to learn the English Language. Newspapers was

the best way of learning before Independence, and creating public opinion in

the time of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan.

MAGAZINES

Through magazines, we can learn by articles , features , interviews , short stories , and we can get very nice literature by magazines. Different types of magazines having different and versatile knowledge

of over all the world.

BOOKS

Book is the best source of education. A lot of material

of formal and informal education is available in the

books. Mostly students depend upon this medium to learn the education. In

spite of modern technology, still this

medium is popular for the learning.

ROLE OF ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN EDUCATION

Role of Radio in the Educational Process

Radio is also playing a important role in education.

Talk shows about politics, finance and other programs are the source of informal

education. Many Personalities, Scholars,

Professionalists come in radio as a chief guest, by live calls, we take a lot of information and learned by this way.

Community Radio System Community Radio System have made for education.

Radio has now started to enter into the education sector with the name of community radio system.

The term community radio signifies radio broadcasting with the objectives of serving the community by involving members of the community.

It will help the students to increase their speaking skill.

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With the introduction of this technology, quite a few civil society organizations have come forward to broadcast their educative radio programming .

Moreover ,this kind of radio will help students to revise their classroom teaching, which they may forget.

The impact of community radio is massive and its impact felt on every section of the society.

Role of Internet in the Educational Process The Internet has a significant potential for providing children and

youth with access to educational information, and can be compared with a huge home library.

Regardless of gender, race, age, geographic location, language or any disability, internet gives an equal chance to all to progress in the field of education.

ONLINE LEARNING Online learning has assumed the role of an important media for

imparting distance education.

The most important advantage of online distance education is to earn a degree from one’s home or work place.

We can get knowledge and information through charts, maps, graphs,

moving images , slides and video clippings and even audio recordings via Internet.

It helps to understand the entire syllabus without the help of a teacher.

ROLE OF TELEVISION IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS Television is the powerful media that will reach all sorts of people. It is a source of informal education. TV does play an important role in shaping a person’s life, both professionally

and personality . It does provide the value addition knowledge to the concerned person,

irrespective of his profession. We’ve a lot of programs on almost everything. There is something for

everyone, Channel like Discovery, National Geographic, Animal Planet etc. does provide us with immense knowledge from the subject inventions.

TV provide to learn so many things like politics , business, finance, nature, different languages learn through dramas and movies, cooking etc.

Different News Channels help to update our knowledge.

ROLE OF FILMS IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS Film is also a source of informal education we can know about different cultures,

and other societies norms , values , civilizations and way of living by films .

Film is playing an important role for learning different languages. Film delivers a moral lesson to the viewers. Its depend upon viewers, how that they perceive.

Many historical films tell us the old history of the Nations.

In a dramatic way, films tell us a current situation of the World like terrorism, corruption, extremism, social evils etc.

ROLE OF MOBILE DEVICES IN EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

The advent of mobile devices have changed the learning

methods of students. Students store all their notes in mobiles and study from it because it’s

easy and convenient.The Hindu Education Plus writes

that students and researches can effectively use mobile

services to get accurate data, clarify the data and make thesis

more credible.

CONCLUSION We can rightly conclude that the effect of media is vast on the life of

each and every individual.

With the on-going development of information and technology in the society, media has given particular attention to the need of education and cultural diversity and promoted media consciousness among individuals.

Media has opened a new dimension and gave a new meaning to education.

Education has become more entertaining like never before.