Lesson 18

Roles and functions of an Educational Media Center

The Educational Media Center functions as a vital instrument as well as a basic requirement for quality education by enriching all parts of the school's educational process. And it is designed for the housing and utilization of all educational media with in the school.

                                        

-     It reflects and supports the philosophy of the school.

-     It shares and implements the school aims and objectives.

-     It is involved in the teaching and learning process.

-     It is a source center.

-     It is a learning laboratory.

-     It is a teaching agency.

-     It is a service agency.

-     A coordinating agency.

-     A center for recreational reading, viewing and listening

Roles of Educational Media Center

-       Center for resources

-       Laboratory for learning

-       Agent of teaching

-       Service agency

-       Coordinating agency

-       Recreational reading center

-       A stepping stone to the other recreational activities in school.

Functions of Educational Media Center

-       Media and instruction

-       The instructional media services

-       Classroom facilities

-       Media program

              

An EMC is a facility of the school system tasked to require, maintain, care and promote the full effective used of educational media. It houses the both old new technologies meant to make learning more efficient and effective. It facilitates and ensures the optimum use of all instructional media. It organizes learning activities for students and teachers alike for them to upgrade and improve on their technology manipulative skills all for the purpose of motivating them to keep on developing on their communications, analytical, integrative creative and collaborative skills for meaningful lifelong learning.