The Role of Multimedia Teaching - Learning Strategies in the Development of Competencies of Primary School Pupils

Abstract

: In these times of educational needs and requirements, and especially after the Covid pandemics, where both teachers and students were forced to adapt to new educational situations, the idea of multimedia took new meanings. In the present brief study, I would like to highlight the main definitions that stand behind the concept of media and multimedia, in order to get a better understanding. Then, I would like to present the main advantages and disadvantages of the use of multimedia teaching – learning strategies in education. Also, I present some curiosities about the main downloaded tools used in education and belonging to multimedia area, and also some practical ideas about how to introduce them into the daily schedule of pupils, in order to get better results in education. The main objective of the study is to see the real situation of multimedia strategy use in Romanian primary schools, mainly those from Arad County. I finish my study by presenting and describing some of the best practices in terms of multimedia use in education and how they manage to develop some competencies of primary school pupils. The preliminary results show that multimedia tools used in primary schools from Arad County, develop several competencies, such as transversal and key competences. Suggestions are that multimedia strategies should be used weekly in the teaching learning routine of pupils in order to get better outcomes.