b. Media Position in Learning
Figure 1. Media position in Learning System Daryanto, 2010: 7 Learning process is communication process take place in a system.
Learning media have an important position in learning system. Media as a communication tools between communicator to communicant, so media is
a distributor learning information or learning message. Without media, communication will not occur and learning process as a communication
process will not held optimally.
c. Functions and Benefits of Learning Media
Learning media according to Levie Lentz 1982 in Arsyad 2011: 16-17, as follows:
SOURCE EXPERIENCE
EXPERIENCE SOURCE
MEDIA
IDE A
CODING
CODE INTER-
PRETA- TION
UNDERSTAND
DISTURBANCE
FEEDBACK
1 Attention functions
Media can direct students’s attention to concentrate on subject content
relating to visual meaning that displayed or accompanying subject material text.
2 Affective functions
This function can be viewed on level of students’s enjoyment when
studying text with an image. 3
Cognitive functions This function expressing that visual symbol or image can facilitate
objectives achievement to understanding and remembering information or message contained in the image.
4 Compensatory functions
This function gives a context for understanding text to help weak students in reading and organize information to recall.
While the benefits of media according to Arsyad 2011: 26-27 are as follows: learning media is to clarify the presentation of messages and
information so it can facilitate and improve learning process and learning results; learning media improving and directing studentss attention so it
can improving learning motivation, students ’s interaction with their
environment, and students ’s learning independence based on their abilities
and interests; learning media can solve the limitations such as: the senses, space, and time; learning media give experience for students and allow
direct interaction with teachers, community, and environment.
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