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In essence, CyberArts consists of technologists and artists applying emerging interactive, multimedia tools and techniques toward a variety of purposes including: education, music, graphics, animation, publishing, video, theater, theme parks, toys and games, and virtual reality.
Purposes, Uses and Functions of Multimedia Technology In
In the field of art education, multimedia technologies can serve several purposes, uses, and functions. Several of these have been discussed by Kaagan (1990) who states that multimedia technology can be used to bring in to focus, to highlight, and to take advantage of the potential of arts education, especially Discipline Based Art Education, to foster students' reasoning and problem solving abilities. In other words, the incorporation of multimedia technologies into art education can operate to foster cognitive growth in students.
Secondly, Kaagan (1990) states that the use of multimedia technology allows educators to assume a more aggressive posture with regard to arts education in terms of serving the needs of students with disabilities, even marked disabilities. Kaagan also reports that multimedia technology can operate to advance arts education in that it is supportive of attempts to professionalize teaching in this area.
In addition, multimedia technologies are said to legitimize the arts by advancing efforts to assess student performance as well as by accounting for progress in expanding the role of the arts. And, finally, multimedia technology are said by Kaagan (1990) to cause exemplary arts education materials to be developed, materials that allow students to take advantage of state-of-the art technologies in their arts learning.
Kennedy (1989) has suggested that the influence that television has upon students can be positive if the possibilities of video use are realized by the educational system. He advocates an art education program in which...