New Media in Thai Modern Education
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This academic article aims to analyze the new media and the modern education. The continually growth of new communication technology is highly important as the communication innovation which involves the vast global networking. This innovation also effects Thailand especially to young generation and students. This convinces the government to use new media to link all the information to support the students to increase studying skills and increase their learning achievement by integrating the “New Media” idea with the new computer technology and the communication innovation in 3 types which are tool format, software format and networking format and the constructivist theory toward learning achievement in the modern education with the belief that the learning is the procedure which proceeds inside the learner. The learner will build up all their new knowledge by analyzing their new experience in new environment or information linking to their existing knowledge.
The analysis has found that: (1) New Media effects the constructivist theory toward learning achievement in the modern education in a way that the learners’ curiosity motivate themselves to use the information from internet such as video and sound to analyze, judge and construct their own knowledge. (2) New Media relates to the constructivist theory toward learning achievement in the modern education in a way that it enhances the learners to practice and integrate their knowledge which make them think and analyze better. (3) New Media relates to the constructivist theory toward learning achievement in the modern education in a way that new media enhances the learner to develop their searching skills to analyze and evaluate information according to the learner’s aim.
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