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USING MULTIMEDIA TO ENGAGE LEARNERS
Learning Centers & MultimediaSamantha Arnold
Frostburg State University
Spring 2013
LEARNING CENTERS
A learning center is an area of the classroom that is self contained to encourage individual or small group learning. In each learning center there is a topic that the teacher wants the students to focus on.
WHAT MAKES A GOOD LEARNING CENTER?
Organized
Interactive
Designed for individuals, pairs, or triads
Technology
Confined to a clearly identified area
Skill Centers• Provide students
with opportunities to reinforce a skill for additional practice. • Example: math
manipulatives with math problems on a worksheet.
• Example: Prefixes for students learning word skills
TYPES OF CENTERS
Interest Centers• Stimulate new
interests and encourage creativity.• Example: Prior to
teaching a unit on insects, create a center on insect life.
• Example: Before lesson on American culture, make a center representing the culture
Remedial Centers• Give additional
practice to the students who are struggling with a specific topic. • Example: Include
fraction dominoes in a center that is for students struggling with fractions.
TYPES OF CENTERS CONTINUED
Enrichment Centers• Offer stimulating
learning experiences for students who have completed their work for the day. • Example: Have a
computer game or video set up that will be interesting and related to a topic the students are learning
ADVANTAGES
Self pacing• The students are responsible for their own learning
and they can work at their own pace; this increases the likelihood of success.
Active learning• Students have hands on participation in their
learning experience.
Teacher role• The teacher can be free to move around the room
and assist students where needed, playing more of a coaching role.
LIMITATIONS
Cost• Time, planning, and equipment costs
Management• Teachers must have good classroom management
and organization
Student responsibility• Students have to be willing to accept some
responsibility for their own learning
MANIPULATIVES
Manipulatives are hands-on objects that can be handled in the learning setting. Manipulatives are often used in learning centers. Manipulatives are great because they promote learning by attracting student attention.
TYPES OF MANIPULATIVES
Real objects
Models
Mock-ups
REAL OBJECTS
Real objects are things such as coins, tools, artifacts, plants, and animals.
Real objects are appropriate for learners who are encountering a topic they have little experience on.
Examples of how to enhance classroom instruction• Cutaways• Specimens• Exhibits
Models are a three dimensional representation of a real object. A model could be larger, smaller, or the same size as the object it represents.
Examples of models include airplanes, zebras, human brain, or anything you can think of that will enhance the students learning.
MODELS
Mock-ups are simplified representations of more complex devices. They are used to clarify the more complex object. For example, a mock-up of a building is shown to the right.
MOCK-UPS
Realism-manipulatives provide realism and a 3D representation
Interest-manipulatives arrouse interest because everyone likes to touch them.
Cooperation-manipulatives stimulate small group learning
Expense-manipulatives tend to be pricey.
Storage-It is difficult to find and remember where the manipulatives have been stored.
Fragility- manipulatives are easily broken.
MANIPULATIVES
Advantages Limitations
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