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