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Integrating Digital Media

Digital media is something that can help to enhance student learning through various ways. Learning through the traditional textbook and worksheet can be a great way to teach students, but not all students can fully understand what is being taught as they might find learning through literature to be complicated or confusing. Instead implementing digital media can help to fill the gaps and hopefully meet the needs of all students in the classroom.

Videos in the Classroom

Videos in the classroom can help to do several things. One thing that showing a video can do is it can introduce new topic that students would be learning. By using a video to introduce what students will be learning it can get them thinking about what they will be learning and give them real example on how they could solve problems or what is expected of them to come to the right answers. Then after teaching that topic teachers can go back and reteach things that students may find confusing or just have questions about. Another thing that videos can offer is getting students to ask questions. When there is something they see that they do not understand or want more details about that is when the teacher or other students can jump in and talk about their concerns and the solutions that could be used to solve the problem and answer the question that was asked.

eBooks in the Classroom

Ebooks can be helpful for several reasons. Reason one being that it has the ability to read aloud which can help those who may struggle with reading. The read aloud feature can also help students to learn and recognize pronunciations of words the student may struggle with as well. Another thing that ebooks are useful for are keeping students engaged by asking question about the text as they are reading to ensure they are comprehending what they are reading.