INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY 3(2+1)

Lesson 20 : Functions And Problems Of Audiovisual Aids

Advantages or Functions of Audio-Visual Aids

Some of the important values of the proper use of audio-visual aids are given below

1. Best motivators: audio-visual aids are the best motivators. The students work with more interest and zeal. They are more attentive

2. Antidote to the disease of verbal instruction: They help to reduce verbalism. They help to giving clear concepts and thus help to bring accuracy in learning

3. Clear images: clear images are formed when we see, hear, touch, taste and smell as our experiences are direct, concrete and more or less permanent. Learning through the senses becomes the most natural and consequently the easiest.

4. Vicarious experience: It is beyond doubt that the first-hand experience is the best type of educative experience. But it is neither practicable nor desirable to provide such experience to pupils. substituted experiences may be provided under such conditions

5. Variety: Audio-Visual aids given variety and provide different tools in the hands of the teacher

6. Freedom: When audio-visual aids are employed, there is great scope for children to move about, talk, laugh and comment upon. Under such an atmosphere the students work because they want to work and not because the teacher wants them to work

7. opportunities to handle and manipulate: Many visual aids offer opportunities to students and manipulate things

8. Retentivity: Audio-Visual aids contribute to increases Retentivity as they stimulate response of the whole organism to the situation in which learning takes place

9. Based on maxims of teaching: The use of audio visual aids enable the teacher to follow the maxims of teaching like concrete to abstract, known to unknown and learning by doing

10. Helpful in attracting attention: Attention is the true factor in any process of teaching and learning. Audio-Visual aids help the teacher in providing proper environment for capturing as well as sustaining the attention and interest of the students in the classroom work

11. Helpful in fixing up new learning: What is gained in terms of learning, needs to be fixed up in the minds of students. Audio –Visual aids help in achieving this objective by providing several activities, experiences and stimuli to the learners

12. Saving of energy and time: A good deal of energy and time of both the teachers and students can be saved on account of the use of audio-visual aids as most of the concepts and phenomena may be easily clarified, understood and assimilated through their use

13. Realism: the use of audio-visual aids provides a touch of reality to the learning situation.

14. Vividness: Audio-visual aids give vividness to the learning situation.

15. Meeting individual differences: There are wide individual differences among learners. Some are ear-oriented; some can be helped through visual demonstrations, while others learn better by doing. The use of a variety of audio-visual aids helps in meeting the needs of different types of students.

16. Encouragement to healthy classroom interaction: Audio-visual aids, through their wide variety of stimuli, provision of active participation of the students, and various experiences encourage healthy classroom interaction for the effective realization of teaching –learning objectives

17. Spread of education on a mass scale: Audio-visual aids like radio and television help in providing opportunities for education to people living in remote areas.

18. promotion of scientific temper: in place of listening to facts, students observe demonstrations and phenomena thus cultivate scientific temper