Relationship Between Muilti-Media Exposure and Socio-Cultural Awareness of Secondary School Students

Education to its masses is one of the biggest challenges facing developing but populous country like India. Many a fruits of development cannot be reaped if the people of India remain illiterate and uneducated. Instead of waiting, which seems to be never ending, for learners from far and near to come to the centers of learning, the multimedia system makes it possible for education to reach out to the learner wherever he is.

In its quest to reach education to the multitudes, multimedia footed the bill quite admirable, to disseminate educational information to a great number of people. In a well designed instructional strategy, multimedia can either be an indispensable component of learning environment or it can play a role which is to supplement learning.

Stressing the importance of multimedia and their relevance in educational system, UNESCO commissioned International Committee on Educational Envisages in its report that “one of the merits inherent in multimedia is that they relieve teacher of exclusive concern with transmission of knowledge and thereby enable him to pay greater attention to his mission as educator”.

The scope and functioning of multimedia is opening up lots of opportunities for students to get comprehensive ideas, crystal clear ways for own personal and universal development, as in contrast to the olden days where students were not exposed to such technological developments the present day society is totally concentrating in the deeming of knowledge, regarding the use, benefits, and advantages of various scientific developments including the electronic and multimedia. Which has enabled them to enrich themselves with the vast knowledge and the availability and use of such techniques and technology.