PRP Topic - Literature Review

I wish to research and discuss as to whether or not multimedia technology within education has a positive effect on learning and if the use of this technology is an improvement to that of more traditional methods. In this document I shall be researching what tools past and present are used within schools, their advances (i.e. Past – slate and chalk, Present – laptop computer) and what the future holds for education in this digital age.

What’s more effective as a teaching tool, more traditional methods such as the chalkboard introduced in 1801 or the modernised projectors and networked computers that we see in many schools today?

I am going to produce some aptitude tests including things such as memory related questions, mathematics and languages in both traditional and modern methods.

I will evaluate the artefacts by putting them into practice at school’s, college’s and within NTU. I will ask students to complete the aptitude tests and then answer some questions in the form of a questionnaire as to whether the traditional or modern methods were more successful. Along side the test results I should then be able to answer the question.