学媒之争:评论与反思

Comments and Reflections on the Media Debate

“学媒之争”是当代教育技术学的一次重要学术争鸣。论战双方围绕媒介与学习的关系展开辩驳,澄清了一些重要事实与概念,但未能在媒介与学习关系上达成共识。一方认为,媒介与学习存在内在的关联,媒介革新能提高教学质量,教育技术研究的重心是教学媒介;另一方认为,媒介与学习没有内在的关联,媒介革新只能降低教学成本,教育技术研究的重心是教学方法。然而,深入研究表明,媒介革新对学习的影响主要表现为学习范式的转型,学习因此变得更加自由,教育更加人性化。当前,新兴的信息技术将逐步取代电子技术的主导地位,教育研究的重中之重就是揭示信息技术开启的新型学习范式。

The Media Debate is a significantly academic dialogue in contemporary educational technology. The theme of the debate is “the relationship between media and learning”. Both sides clarified some important facts and concepts through dialogue, but failed to reach a consensus on the relationship between media and learning. One side of the debate believes that there is an intrinsic correlation between media and learning, media innovation can improve the quality of teaching, and the focus of educational technology research is instructional media. The other side of the debate believes that media has no intrinsic correlation with learning, media innovation can only reduce the cost of teaching, and the focus of educational technology research is teaching methods. However, further research shows that the impact of media innovation on learning is mainly manifested in the transformation of learning paradigm, so as to make learning freer and education more humane. At present, the emerging information technology will gradually replace the dominant position of electronic technology. The top priority of educational research is to reveal the new learning paradigm opened by information technology.