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- Vol 7 RE: Chapter 1, App B, App D
media affordancesmultimedia representationsinstructional methodscognitive processessocial organisationrepresentational capabilitiesmedia-method interactiontechnological determinismJournal article Evidence summaryAt a glance
Kozma reframes the media-effects debate from asking whether media independently cause learning to asking how media capabilities and instructional methods interact with learners’ cognitive and social processes. Media differ in symbol systems, processing capabilities, and the ways they can represent, transform, store, and connect information.
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These capabilities become educationally consequential only when a design recruits them for meaningful activity. Kozma illustrates the argument with computer and video environments in which learners manipulate dynamic representations, coordinate multiple forms of information, discuss interpretations, and build knowledge. The same hardware can support very different processes, so a comparison that treats “computer” or “video” as a uniform treatment obscures the mechanism. His position answers Clark’s claim that methods, not delivery vehicles, determine learning, while avoiding simple technological determinism. Media do not guarantee outcomes and should not be evaluated by novelty alone.
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Research should specify the representational affordance, task, learner knowledge, social organisation, and cognitive process that link a medium with an outcome. Design should begin with learning goals and deliberately exploit capabilities that make otherwise difficult thinking or collaboration possible.
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