The role of technology in delivering the curriculum
1. The Role of Technology
in Delivering the
Curriculum
2. Types of instructional media/technology
Non-projected Media Projected Media
Real objects Overhead transparencies
Models Opaque projection
Field trips Slides
Kits Filmstrips
Printed materials (books, Films
worksheets) Video, VCD, DVD
Visuals (drawings, Computer/multimedia
photographs, graphs, presentations
charts, posters)
Visual boards (chalkboard,
whiteboard, flannel
board, etc.)
Audio materials
3. Factors for Technology Selection
1. Practicality â Is the equipment
(hardware) or already prepared
lesson material (software) available?
If not, what would be the cost in
acquiring the equipment or producing
the lesson in audial or visual form?
4. 2. Appropriateness in relation to the
learners â Is the medium suitable
to the learnersâ ability to comprehend?
Will the medium be a source of plain
amusement or entertainment, but not
learning?
5. 3. Activity / suitability â Will the chosen
media fit the set instructional event,
resulting in either information,
motivation, or psychomotor display?
7. The Role of Technology in Curriculum
Delivery
ï Upgrading the quality of teaching-and-
learning in schools
8. ïIncreasing the capability of the teacher
to effectively inculcate learning, and for
students to gain mastery of lessons
and courses
9. ï Broadening the delivery of education
outside schools through non-traditional
approaches to formal and informal
learning, such as Open Universities and
lifelong learning to adult learners
10. ï Revolutionizing the use of technology to
boost educational paradigm shifts that
give importance to student-centered
and holistic learning