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understanding of educational technology   Educational technology is a way to achieve educational goals by using technology tools produced by humans to help foster students' creative thinking in an education system. Educational media is one type of incentive for students to occur in a learning activity. Learning media combining concrete experiences helps students to combine previous experiences so that it is easier to learn abstract concepts that are difficult to study and record in student memory.      Technology and media have an important role in learning. When learning is centered on the teacher, technology and media play a role in supporting the presentation of learning. On the other hand, when learning is centered on students, students will as media users and users of technology and media to present the results of thought, research results and so forth. But in general, the important role of technology and media occurs when learning is centered on the teache...

    Definition of Interactive Multimedia In the opinion of some experts about understanding media, among others according to Gagne: the media is various type of component in the student environment which can stimulate learning. Following according to Briggs: the media is all physical tools that can be presented message and stimulate students to study. In line with that, AECT too loading: media as forms and the channel that people use to distribute messages / information. Heinich, Molenda and Russel (1996) states that the media is in activity learning can be defined as something that can carry information and knowledge in that interaction takes place between lecturers and students. Heinich, et al (1996), argued media classification that can be used in learning activities, namely: 1). Unprojected media, 2). Projected media 3). Audio media 4). Video media and film, 5). Computers, 6). Multimedia computer based. Thorn (2006) put forward six criteria t...

        COMPUTER MEDIATED.       COMMUNICATION (CMC)NEW     COMMUNICATION PATTERN Understanding Computer Mediated Communication (CMC)Computer Mediated Communication or commonly abbreviated with CMC in Indonesian it can be translatedinto computerized communication or communication mediated by a computer. This review of CMC is new, began to develop in 1987.In the context of CMC the computer in question is not only Personal Computer (PC) or Laptop device, but all devices based on computers such as PDAs, smartphones, tablets and like, these tools are called new media communication. Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) can be simple interpreted as communication that occurs between people by using computer media or through a computer (Herring in Budiargo, 2015: viii). When we used to communicate with someone or something groups only rely on face-to-face communication (face to face), and must be physically close...

Humans are always created by God with their respective strengths and weaknesses, and human rights have been granted that is the basic rights given by God from birth to each person who must be protected and respected by all people. With technological advances that are so fast and rapid, people flocked to the flow of life's journey that demands them to become increasingly easy. Whereas in the past everything was still very simple and when wanting to do something or need something more difficult because it was hindered by simplicity, because it has not been discovered and created technologies that can easily help human needs. Humans who do not understand technology are required to learn and use it, so that they are not considered as one of the obsolete humans. Why is that? .., because in this era of technology is a primary need that must be met to help and facilitate humans in all fields.  Now this is the main trend in one of the existing technologies is gadgets, such as: mo...