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Why Media Matters
Why Use Instructional Multimedia?
- Addresses multiple learning styles
- Provides a common base of knowledge among students
- Extends walls of the classroom to enrich student experiences
- Helps students make associations between existing knowledge and new information
- Facilitates transfer of learning from one discipline to another
- Engages students through multiple modalities
- Activates emotional involvement to increase learning and student retention
- Stimulates class discussion to reinforce instruction and reading
- Reaches students who do not respond well to traditional methods of teaching
