Benefits of animation in education

Education system has an important role to play in shaping the perceptions and characters of students who would lead the world in various capacities tomorrow. The comprehension needs of youngsters can no longer be completely fulfilled by conventional learning framework as it has not kept pace with latest pedagogic trends.

How to Modernize the Education Drive?

The quality of education can be leveraged with the inclusion of animations in classroom teaching. Benefits of animation in education are well-known. Any concept can be presented in lively and visually engaging manner. It is scientifically proved that a process dynamically illustrated can be retained in memory for longer duration compared to oral memorizing.

Further, animated educational videos would take boredom away from learning. The limited attention span or lack of concentration from which most students suffer can be overcome. If you observe the habits of children critically, you would find that they take great delight in watching and sharing memes, videos on social sites, gifs etc. This implies that animated content leaves a deep-rooted impression on the malleable intellect of children.

The importance of animation for children can be seen in educational field also. In classrooms, animated learning material can be leveraged for a variety of purposes, like

• Explaining complex and challenging concepts in easy to comprehend manner
• Making learning more enjoyable experience for even poorly performing students
• Presenting things in completely new perspective

The role of animation in promoting interest for learning in students is paramount. It is imperative that parents and other stakeholders should champion the cause of including animation in learning.

Ways to Incorporate Animation in Children’s Education

The benefits that can be reaped by inclusion of animation in education are many. This brings us to the ways in which we can include animation in learning pursuits. The different ways are discussed below.

• Animating subject wise topics

  Different chapters of various subjects like science, mathematics, history etc. can be animated to make students relate with the concepts taught. The challenges in understanding would be decisively overcome as complex topics can be demonstrated in visually appealing manner with fun elements. Children can interact with the same as the course modules can be paused, played, rewound, jumped to offer space for little brains to cope up with subject’s complexities.

  Animated sequences with quirky or off the league images can be retained in memory longer compared to simple videos. Animations can be updated over time thus embracing changes in agile manner.

• Enhancing the quality of class presentations

  Thanks to animated tutorials, the role of teachers would now be more value-added. The interactive classes would prevent students’ attention from straying. Each lesson would visually engage the learner bringing in more participation from him/her.

  As class presentations would become more persuasive, students would be motivated to employ more efforts to become conversant with the topics. Ideas can be explained more interestingly with slide shows. The visual presentation embeds concepts in young minds more firmly.

• Making visualizations more interesting and easier

  Certain concepts are more complex and often require focused teaching efforts to provide clarity to students. 3D animated subject videos can be deployed to provide in-depth information and explanation about such concepts. Multimedia elements like audio, video, texts, images, and gestures can be blended together intelligently and coherently to make complex subjects more comprehensible. Students with various IQ levels too can exhibit exemplary understanding.

  With animations, concepts that baffle understanding can be easily articulated. Such inscrutable concepts can be defined at length using interesting multimedia presentations. This helps learners to visualize the concepts in better manner. The imagination of young minds can be taken on a flight using comprehensive and agile animation learning modules.

• Facilitating classes on the go

  Traditional classrooms are confined to brick and mortar rooms. Children have to attend the classes for fixed durations irrespective of whether they could understand the topics discussed or not. With animated modules, lessons can be published as online podcasts which help children to learn at their own pace even out of classes.

  Interactive lessons can be learnt from different locations. All subjects can be included. Access to resources can be gained even from home and library. This offers an added incentive or encouragement for learning and consistent improvement. Animations can be integrated with soothing background music which can calm the mind, improve concentration and facilitate optimum comprehension.

• Surmounting the age barrier in learning

  With animated e-learning modules, learners of various age groups can benefit from intuitive studies. Different approaches can be adopted for children of kindergarten, secondary, higher secondary and university learners. The exciting and perky animations would prove to be appealing for all irrespective of age.

  Efficiency of learning and productivity can be improved by teachers who would adopt diverse approaches for learners of different age clusters. Certain approaches can be retained for all. Animation education allows children to keep in memory concepts learnt in previous classes or sessions also.

  Animated sequences can be presented with gripping narratives, complementing audio effects and soothing music. These add more power to e-learning courses. Different sensory perceptions in children are triggered and parts of brain responsible for retention are actuated. Learning material would not only engage the viewers but would also stimulate their memories.

• Providing medium for expressing one’s feelings

  Often children feel shy or self-conscious in expressing their feelings. The presences of students, who score better marks, around them also, inhibit their creative energies. Traditional art forms such as painting or drawing are not everyone’s cup of tea. They may appear fun to learn but for those who suffer from intrinsic artistic flair for these art forms can feel depressed.

  Such problems can be vaulted over with the help of animation in education. Characters are already crafted and supplied in environments which are illustrated beforehand. The innate creativity of learners can be sustained and inspired through pre-built animated modules like speech bubbles. Many companies are launching animated study materials that are solely developed for usage in schools and come accompanied with class management features for teachers.

• Improving the Communication skills of Learners

  Animated videos enhance the communication skills of learners. They learn to imitate and mimic the peculiar ways of objects depicted through animation. Learners’ confidence in facing others for delivering their ideas in compelling manner grows. With animation videos, proper grammatical and sentence formation methods can be spelled out. This improves the linguistic skills of learners significantly. Students who are subjected to such animation videos often exhibit advanced grammatical and language proficiency compared to their peers with no exposure to animation.

• Learner’s Comprehension Is Taken To The Next level

  The importance of animation for educational purposes can be understood from the fact that learners’ can move to next stage of education seamlessly. This is because animations demonstrate the concepts from practical perspective which makes understanding easier. Also, students are motivated to research things more thoroughly. Learners are encouraged to optimally use their senses of seeing, touching, smelling, hearing and tasting. As students gain prior knowledge of their interest areas, their research instincts become more incisive.

• Technical Skills of Learners’ Increase

  Students’ technical awareness of learning disciplines which are more practical in nature becomes more focused. Example of such technical domain is measurement related segment where different objects’ areas, volumes or lengths have to be estimated. Students can learn geometrical concepts easily. Consequently, they become competent in solving various problems by applying technical skills. This results in improvement in overall performance and better scores in various assessments.

• Presentation Skills of Learners’ Become Better

  Students become proficient in imitating animation objects and grow in confidence after being exposed to learning videos. Normal classroom teaching is complemented by animation videos that depict the correct way of expressing things. The experience acquired by mimicking animation videos helps improving students’ presentation and articulation skills. Students also interact more confidently and smartly with peers in classroom.

• Interpretation Skills of Learners’ Get Sharpened

  Video animations can be used for presenting cryptic information to learners. Specific objects or words are suggested through which a learner is encouraged to interpret the information encrypted. This would motivate the learners to leverage their critical thinking skills for interpreting the information. During execution of ideas in practical manner, the critical interpretation skills of learners shine forth.

• Prepares Students For Advanced Specializations

  Through class demonstrations, animation videos serve to cultivate the skills of learners in alignment with their future academic specializations. The use of animation in teaching leads to the development of technical skills which prove useful while pursuing engineering or other technology oriented courses. Students also become conversant with the careful handling of different measurement tools. Learners can gain vital information about their desired careers during class presentations.

• Students Can Identify Themselves With Animated Characters Better

  Learners attending K-2 classrooms have immersive studying experience due to animated courses. Kids start relating with fictional characters in cartoons and books. This connection with characters allow them to relate with adults and peers in more meaningful manner. Animated 3D characters nurture specific habits in students which helps in refining their critical thinking ability and social skills. This fosters healthier interactions with others for the complete lifetime of learners.

• Students Learn to Empathize

  Compassion, kindness and empathy can be nurtured in young learners effectively through animated characters which set an ideal before them. As kids love to emulate characters, the animations have positive impact on cultivating their social skills.

• Teaching Can Be Imparted Through Multi-Sensory Tools

  Multi-sensory techniques are used as effective interventions for various professional development programs. Animation can serve as an effective multi-sensory tool. Learners can view how their favorite characters behave in difficult situations, listen to their responses, observe their interactions with other characters, and share these experiences with teachers and peers.

  The ‘Habits of Mind’ animations’ website carry extension lessons in printable format which can also involve the tactile sense. Critical thinking can be easily taught to learners with animation.

• Making Students Learn by Imitating Characters’

  Children have natural tendency to imitate animated characters they come across. These can be game characters who may be violent or aggressive. To shield children from acquiring undesirable traits, it is important to subject them to animated videos whose characters have refined social skills. This would help kids learn good skills which will make them evolve as enlightened beings.

• Information Can Be Conveyed Efficiently

  You can convey complex information in impactful manner with short animation videos. The tone, expression and body language of characters help children understand the environment in which particular appearance, style and interaction mode is suited. Children learn how to react to good and bad things and can develop the skill to predict.

• Shared Experiences Can Be Strengthened

  Shared experiences can be provided to learners in classroom with animated learning videos. Written or verbal communication can be promoted by offering something to collectively ponder over. Social traits can be acquired by children quickly by watching the same in practice in group mode. Engaging animation fuels imagination leading to better communication and nurturing of new ideas. Constructive debating is promoted. Animation videos give a sense of inclusion for all students in the learning process. The enrichment students gain with shared viewing is reflected in their writing and verbal skills.

Conclusion

Animation has been proven by numerous studies as a medium conducive to facilitate optimum learning in students. However, courses have to be comprehensively, holistically and strategically designed to ensure that desired outcomes are achieved. MAPSystems as one of the top animation companies whose experts have exposure and proficiency in this specialized domain.

Animation can be put to various creative uses for complementing different segments. It is useful for accomplishing desired objectives in streamlined manner. In the educational sector, animation is a potential tool for driving ease of comprehension.

We can develop and deliver compelling and stimulating learning modules integrating 2D animations and 3D animations along with supportive multimedia elements for taking teaching pursuit to the next level. The lesson architectures can motivate learners and promote their potential