New Media Technology in Education

Examples of applications for New-media technology.

 There have been advance improvements in media technology and that has affected immensely on the way we interact, the way we get information, communicate, and the conduct business. More so traditional teaching methods are giving way to new educational approaches as the use of this technology in the classrooms is becoming more widespread.

New media technology is any type of application meant to transfer information via digital techniques, computerized systems or data networks. The forms of this technology are interactive and contain compressed data designed to be accessed in a variety of markets. Wikipedia refers new media as the on-demand access to content any time, anywhere, on any digital device, as well as interactive user feedback, creative participation and community formation around the media content. 

Creation of media content, its publishing, distribution and consumption is nowadays extensive beyond imagination with increasing real-time generation of new, unregulated content. New media does not include television programs, feature films, magazines, books, or paper-based publications; unless they contain technologies that enable digital interactivity. 

Interactive media must be interactive and easy to and track responses.

As technologies advance, we use these emerging tools to our advantage. Each technology provides potential benefits to help people learn, but at what cost? The changes in how we learn with new technologies can have both positive and negative effects on our ability to learn and on the educational systems at large. 

Social networking sites allow students to explore their interests on a global scale and discuss their interests with a wider range of people. By adding some self development skills through the new media can boost oneself towards success. Facebook is an example of the social media model, in which most users are also participants. This has huge implications for self-learning, as information and resources are much more available than they were previously. However, for students that aren’t skilled at evaluating different content, it can be hard for them to sort through various resources to find accurate and useful information.

It’s not so rare anymore nowadays for entire courses and degree programs to be offered online, where educators and students are using a wide variety of tools to work within these new virtual learning environments.