The Role of Multimedia Teaching - Learning Strategies in the Development of Competencies of Primary School Pupils

Abstract

: In these times of educational needs and requirements, and especially
after the Covid pandemics, where both teachers and students were forced to
adapt to new educational situations, the idea of multimedia took new meanings.
In the present brief study, I would like to highlight the main definitions that
stand behind the concept of media and multimedia, in order to get a better
understanding. Then, I would like to present the main advantages and
disadvantages of the use of multimedia teaching – learning strategies in
education. Also, I present some curiosities about the main downloaded tools
used in education and belonging to multimedia area, and also some practical
ideas about how to introduce them into the daily schedule of pupils, in order to
get better results in education. The main objective of the study is to see the real
situation of multimedia strategy use in Romanian primary schools, mainly those
from Arad County. I finish my study by presenting and describing some of the
best practices in terms of multimedia use in education and how they manage to
develop some competencies of primary school pupils. The preliminary results
show that multimedia tools used in primary schools from Arad County, develop
several competencies, such as transversal and key competences. Suggestions
are that multimedia strategies should be used weekly in the teaching learning
routine of pupils in order to get better outcomes.