It’s time to explore more on the content of viewing materials and their
similarities and differences with printed sources of information.
Have you tried watching a television show or reading a magazine or an
encyclopedia that features the earth and its biodiversity?
If you have done both, then you are ready to answer this activity. If not, you may
search it on YouTube or read any printed material about it.
Using the table below, compare and contrast the characteristics of the printed
material that you read and the viewing material that you watched about earth and its
biodiversity.
Write your answers on a separate sheet of paper.
Answers & Comments
Answer:
Printed Material: textbooks, workbooks, reference books, newspapers, journals and magazines.
It is extremely portable, cost effective, readily available, and comfortable to use. Students don't need special equipment to use it, and with adequate light, print materials can be used anywhere at anytime. Students can review the materials at their own speed.
Viewing Material: photographs, cinema and video films, videotapes, paintings, drawings, cartoons, prints, designs, and three-dimensional art such as sculpture and architecture.
Viewing helps students to slow down, reflect and think about the images they are seeing, and develop the knowledge and skills to analyse and evaluate visual texts and multimedia texts that use visuals. Viewing also helps students acquire information and appreciate ideas and experiences visually communicated by others.