Student Stereotypes

Students Three things to consider- student demographics, access, and differences in students’ learning with technology. Student demographics refer to there being a diverse range of students. This creates a challenge for teachers to know and understand how to teach and accommodate all of their learning styles. Access refers to the access to technology. If students do not have easy, cost effective and available access to technology, then this medium of education cannot be used. Difficulty of access is restricting gin developing countries, and will therefore make this method of teaching impossible. Differences in students’ learning with technology- It is obvious that different students would prefer and respond to different types of technology …show more content…
There are twelve principles on how learners cognitively process multimedia such as coherence; signaling; avoiding redundancy; spatial contiguity; temporal contiguity; segmenting; pre-training; modality; multimedia; personalisation; no images, and voice.
Interaction This refers to how different media enables interaction, which has been proven to be critically important, as students seem to learn best when they are active in their learning. There are various ways for learners to interact whilst studying, all of which include a different mix of media and technology.
Organisational Issues The successful use of technology and multimedia as a teaching medium is largely dependent on how organised and set up an institution is. Similarly, it is also dependent on how skilled a teacher is with regards to using technological support for teaching. The success of using technology for teaching would rely heavily on the organization of the institution and the teacher.
Networking If networking were required to enable a learner to broaden their knowledge on subject specific work, then different types of media would be selected. For example, “blogs”; “Google hangout”; “wiki’s” and