Lesson 2The Role of Technology in Delivering the Curriculum

Instructional media may also be referred to as media technology, or simply technology. Technology plays a crucial role in delivering instruction to learners.

Non-projected Media

Projected Media

Real objects Overhead transparencies

Models Opaque projection

Field Trips Slides

Kits Film Strips

Printed Materials Films

Visuals / Audio Materials

Video, VCD, DVD

Visual Boards Media PresentationsTable 1 Types of Instructional Technology

Factors for Technology Selection

•Practicality•Appropriateness in relation to the learners

•Activity / Suitability•Objective-matching

The Role of Technology In Curriculum Delivery

• First Trend: Paradigm shift from teacher-centered to student-centered approach to learning

• Second Trend: Broadening realization that education is not simply a delivering of facts and information, but an educative process of cultivating the cognitive, affective, psychomotor, and much more the contemplative intelligence of the learners of a new age.

• Third Trend: The use of new information and communication technology or ICT

The primary roles of educational technology in delivering the school curriculum’s instructional programs have been identified:

• Upgrading the quality of teaching-and –learning in schools

• Increasing the capability of the teacher to effectively inculcate learning, and for students to gain mastery of lessons and courses

• Broadening the delivery of education outside schools through non-traditional approaches to formal and informal learning, such a Open Universities and lifelong learning to adult learners

• Revolutionizing the use of technology to boost educational paradigm shifts that give importance to student-centered and holistic learning