Manipulative Information

and Media
How does this
illustrate the
concept of
Manipulative
Media?
 Manipulative Media

• Loosely defined as any material, program, or

application.
• Use to formulate new information to aid learning
through the use, analysis, evaluation, and production
of interactive and hands-on media.
 Types of manipulative media

• Traditional/ Concrete Manipulative

• Digital/ Virtual Manipulative
 Traditional/ Concrete Manipulative
• objects and materials that have been present since before the
advent of computers and computer-aided technology.

Model
s
Real Field
object trip
Traditional/
Concrete
Manipulati
ve
Real object Model Field trip
Geared clock Human Anatomy Zoo
 Digital/ Virtual Manipulative

• Computer-aided objects and materials that also facilitate

and encourage interactive learning.
 Defining Interactive Media

• Investopedia defined interactive media “method of

communication in which program’s outputs depend on the user’s
inputs, and the user’s input s in turn affect the program’s
outputs.’’
• Social Media is a kind of interactive media because the use
graphics and text that allow sharing information between users,
online conversing or chatting and playing online or web-based
games.
• Video games are also interactive
 Andre Leyden
• Mobile learning apps are extremely helpful in certain situations, for
example, when you need to check a fact or consume small amounts of
information at a given time. About three in four (47%) teens age 12-
17 say they access the internet on cellphones, tablets, and other
mobile devices. However,
• If one were to choose between computer and mobile phone for
researching a subject in depth, mobile learning probably wouldn’t be
your best option. The important things is, therefore, to use the
appropriate means at the right time to optimize the way in which you
learn.
 Googling Phenomenon as Manipulative Media

• Googling, through common usage, is understood by internet

user as looking for information about something using
Google.com.
• Googling the adoption of this internet vocabulary indicates
the ubiquity of the use of the web search engine Googling
considered to be “the most successful’’ repository of vast
source materials on almost any information sought online.
 Internet use of Manipulative Media

• In the Philippines, internet usage is reported to be

at it’s peak and is continuously growing every year
despite the poor internet connection speed.
• According to an article be Baldivia(2013) “there are
33,000,000 (33 million) active users in the
Philippines that means 3.5 out of 10 Filipinos are
online.
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Do you think you can ever live without the
internet? Why do you say so?
Thank you!