hose who are proficient at accessing, evaluating, and communicating information through technology. By using technological media in the classroom, students are assisted in learning the skills they will need to live successfully in the twenty-first century.
(3) Hypermedia fosters improvement in students' reading and writing skills.
(4) Hypermedia presentations call for higher-order thinking which helps students to learn how to solve complex problems; in other words, it improves students' thinking skills.
(5) Hypermedia can nurture artistic expression through technology-based art forms such as video production, computer-based animation, and digital photography.
(6) Hypermedia teaches students how to access and utilize resources that exist outside of the school by familiarizing them with methods and techniques of seeking information other than what textbooks provide.
(7) Hypermedia can teach students to produce products that have value outside of the school setting; in other words, it can be characterized as a vocational tool which teaches students to do meaningful work.
(8) Hypermedia can teach both students and teachers (when used by teachers as part of inservice education) to feel increasingly comfortable with the tools and methods of the Information Age.
(9) Hypermedia can be used to bring learning experiences and information which was previously unavailable to classroom students, e.g. through hypermedia students can go on a computerized "field trip" to Africa or some other exotic country.
(10) Hypermedia can be used by the educational system to increase the efficiency of operation and productivity of its schools.
Hypermedia: How It Is Currently Being Used in Education
Hancock and Betts (1994) have noted that one of the ways in which hypermedia is being effectively used in the classroom is in mathematics instruction. In this regard, the authors report that by connecting a calculator to a large ...