The finding in an experiment study on the paper: Remembering Television News: Effects of Picture Content by Barrie Gunter found that recalling of brief TV news items can be significantly affected by picture content.
And it's strengthened by the result of an experiment study to compare between learning from TV and books amongst Dutch children in the article: Learning from Television and Books: A Dutch Replication Study Based on Salomon's Model by Johannes W. J. Beentjes. The study suggested that TV may be considered less superficial medium than another study by Salomon with childen in the US.
Whereas the study by Gavriel Salomon in his article: Television Is "Easy" and Print Is "Tough": The Differential Investment of Mental Effort in Learning as a Function of Perceptions and Attributions, found that less mental effort is invested by his subjects, children in the US, thus resulted in worse inference making.
Some lecturers in some universities in the US especially have been using say commercial movies, documentaries, novels such as works of Shakespeare to teach about economics and to present examples in the real-world context by using these mediums. Another reason is to make the learning experience more interesting for the students by using mediums that would engage the students with the interactive modality and with the storyline.
For you yourself, do you reckon you can learn by watching TV or movies or videos (can be training videos which are less commercial and more of real-world context too)?
ps: you can google these articles to see the methodology of the experiments done
And it's strengthened by the result of an experiment study to compare between learning from TV and books amongst Dutch children in the article: Learning from Television and Books: A Dutch Replication Study Based on Salomon's Model by Johannes W. J. Beentjes. The study suggested that TV may be considered less superficial medium than another study by Salomon with childen in the US.
Whereas the study by Gavriel Salomon in his article: Television Is "Easy" and Print Is "Tough": The Differential Investment of Mental Effort in Learning as a Function of Perceptions and Attributions, found that less mental effort is invested by his subjects, children in the US, thus resulted in worse inference making.
Some lecturers in some universities in the US especially have been using say commercial movies, documentaries, novels such as works of Shakespeare to teach about economics and to present examples in the real-world context by using these mediums. Another reason is to make the learning experience more interesting for the students by using mediums that would engage the students with the interactive modality and with the storyline.
For you yourself, do you reckon you can learn by watching TV or movies or videos (can be training videos which are less commercial and more of real-world context too)?
ps: you can google these articles to see the methodology of the experiments done