For the past two decades, the Internet has become widespread and surfaced as a prominent

new technology, which influence has become such a powerful technological tool and in effect
has imbued all aspects of our lives especially so in the field of education and business.
Regardless of one’s age and social status, it is a clear fact that we have entered a new
information age, the computer age, and the Internet is here to stay.

The significant rise of the internet usage has brought enormous change in the way we
communicate because it has made the way we send and receive messages more effective and
more graspable. Thus, the inclusion of media elements such as Flickr, YouTube, MySpace,
Facebook and other Web 2.0 technologies in education have long been utilized to reinforce
delivery of lessons and eventually leads to a better learning rate. How does it work? Research
has shown that people remember 20% of what they see, 40% of what they see and hear, but
about 75% of what they see and hear and do simultaneously (Lindstrom, 1994).The power of
multimedia lies in the fact that it is multi-sensory, stimulating the many senses of the audience.
It is also interactive, enabling the end-users of the application to control the content and flow of
information. With this in mind, teachers must find ways to come up with ways to deliver lessons
that can be effectively imparted through the use of multi-media. However, teachers must first
identify the purpose of injecting multimedia in the classroom. Do you want to inform or instruct?
It is necessary to first deal with this question so as to know the required planning. As much as
possible, tap all the different digital media types in order to stimulate the multi-senses of the
learners for better retention. For example, when teaching English as Second Language
students the use present perfect progressive tense, instead of just making slides displaying the
grammar structure, you can also make use of the music video in YouTube of the song “Way
back into Love” which lyrics used the target grammar structure.

Instead of sticking with the traditional way of teaching which is focusing on what is provided in
the curriculum, bolster your goal of effectively delivering the target learning by combining
problem based-learning with the internet technology “to emphasises real world challenges,
higher order thinking skills, multi-disciplinary learning, independent learning, teamwork and
communication skills” (Tan, 2000). Problem-based learning is an approach that challenges
students to learn through engagement in a real problem by placing students in the active role of
problem-solvers confronted with an ill-structured situation that simulates the kind of problems
they are likely to face. The combination of internet and problem based-learning has been used
by educators for a more goal-directed learning environment. How can the combination of
internet and problem based-learning be used? The first way is to used multimedia provide
stimulus materials such as problem descriptions or resources to streamline the process of
students locating necessary information within a conventional problem based-learning
framework. In the second, problem based-learning might be used as the basis for design of the
multimedia materials so that all or most of a problem based-learning experience could be
encapsulated within the multimedia package. For example, using a the music video from
YouTube of “Way back into Love” and some slides, ask the students how or in what situations
do we use the target grammar structure.
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