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Availability And Utilization Of Audio Visual Resources For Teaching And Learning
[A CASE STUDY OF ART EDUCATION DEPARTMENT OF FACULTY OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA]
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
Background of the study
The teacher’s
task is by no means easy as it involves someone who has some ideas,
knowledge, information or experiences trying to share what he or she has
with someone else who does not have a similar experience. It is a
communication task which requires the teacher to use every available
means to convince the learners to buy his/her ideas or accept the
message. It is not enough for the teacher to give information, he or she
must support what he or she says with educational media which appeal to
the learners’ sensory experience so that learning may be effective.
Audio
visual aids, otherwise referred to as educational media, could be
defined as the wide variety of equipments and materials used for
teaching and learning by teachers and students (Okechukwu, 2010). They
are instructional materials by which the teacher, through the
utilization of more than one sensory channel is able to clarify,
establish and correlate concepts, interpretation and appreciations. They
make dynamic learning experience more concrete and realistic. The use
of audio visual aids improves students’ critical and analytical
thinking.
In the past, a teacher effectiveness depends on his
knowledge of the subject matter, knowledge of how to organize and
present content meaningfully and an understanding of those being taught,
but today, much emphasis is placed upon the use of audio visual aids.
Audio visual aids make learning more permanent in the minds of the
learners because people remember about 90% of what they see and do. Gana
(2000) opined that the successful utilization of any audio visual aid
depends on the wisdom and the resourcefulness of the teacher. The
teacher should make adequate use of available audio visual materials on
his everyday teaching. This will arouse the interest of the students and
enable them see things in their natural setting.
When education was
introduced in Nigeria in the past, chalkboards, charts, pictures and
some concrete objects were only used as audio visual materials, but with
the recent developments in the education system, materials like model,
television, computer and radio-tape recorder are now being used in the
schools. Audio visual aids are very crucial to the proper implementation
of any curriculum used in the education process (Eze, Ani, & Eya,
2007). Learners are supposed to see, hear, feel, touch and practice
whatever they are learning, and for every academic delivery to be
effective, cognizance should be taken of the present day education and
technology and their efficient gadgets and techniques resulting in
improved way of learning. The teacher as a chamber of knowledge has to
improve his mode of lesson delivery to be in line with the current
trend. He cannot remain static in a world that is constantly changing
educationally and technologically, he should familiarize himself with
the innovation that abound in his profession so as to cope with
up-coming challenges. This is because one way of ensuring that the
learner is being carried along in the process of learning is by the
provision and utilization of audio visual aids in teaching. When
teaching is appropriately done with appropriate audio visual aids, it
has a direct impact on students’ achievements since their interests in
learning are stimulated (Abbatte and Mcmahon 2002).
Education is a
life long activity, therefore, a learner must be supplied with the
necessary skills to enable him or her perform effectively in his or her
environment and the world at large. The learner can only have this
information through the good use of audio visual aids in conjunction
with the presented learning materials. Education experts and experienced
teachers agree that the use of audio visual aids helps the students
whose teachers constantly and gainfully employ those materials because
they tend to perform better academically than those whose teachers
rarely employ audio visual aids in their teaching.
Audio visual is
defined as the combination of various digital media types such as text,
images, sound and video, into an integrated multi-sensory interactive
application or presentation to convey a message or information. In other
words, audio visual means “an individual or a small group using a
computer to interact with information that is represented in several
media, by repeatedly selecting what to see and hear next†(Agnew,
Kellerman and Meyer, 2011).
Reisman (2010) described audio visual as a
ray of “computer-driven interactive communication system, which create,
store, transmit and retrieve, textual, graphic and audio tory networks
of information.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The advancement of educational system cannot only be achieved by the use of conventional media technologies; audio visual aids are instructional materials that permeate the teaching and learning processes. Thus, this study aims at determining the application of audio visual aids in the teaching in art education department in faculty of education, university of Nigeria Nsukka. The study adopted a descriptive survey design in which Four (4) research questions were used for the study. The populatio ... Continue reading---
