e-learning

Technology for Teaching and Learning

CHAPTER 2
Non-digital and Digital Skills and Tools in Delivering Technology-Enhanced Lessons

Lesson 1: Non-digital or conventional technology Tools for teaching and learning.

The teachers need instructional materials to enhance teaching and learning.

Instructional materials are defined as print and non-print items that are rested to impact
information to students in the educational process.

Roles of Instructional Materials in teaching and learning:

1. They promote meaningful communication and effective learning;
2. They ensure better retention, thus making learning more permanent;
3. They help to overcome the limited classroom by making the inaccessible accessible;
4. They provide a common experience upon which late learning can be developed; and
5. They encourage participation especially if students are allowed to manipulate materials
used.

Examples of instructional materials:

a. Writing Board – this can be a chalkboard or whiteboard that used chalk or special pencil.
It is the commonly used visual aid.
b. Flip chart – It is a stationary item consisting of a pad of large paper sheets. It is typically
fixed to the upper edge of a whiteboard or supported on a tripod or four-legged easel.
Such charts are commonly used for presentations.
c. Zigzag board – it is a multi-board series of three or four rectangular boards. They are
joined together along the sides by hinges so that they can be easily folded up and
carried.
d. Board display/wall display - this is an important part of any classroom, as they make the
room appear more inviting and create a better learning environment.
e. Rope and Pole Display Board – This board consist of two parallel, horizontal poles tied
loosely together with rope. This kind of display board is invaluable there are few solid
walls for displaying information.
f. Nature table – This contains objects and/or scenes related to the current season, or
upcoming festival or a symbol of an ecosystem.
g. Textbook – the material to be covered and the design of each lesson are carefully
spelled out in detail. It provides organized unit of work. A textbook gives you all the plans
and lessons you need to cover a topic in some detail.
h. Posters – Are often created by students to visually display a significant course project,
developing research, or a particular perspective for class to consider.
i. Diorama – it is often used as a learning tool to help show a student’s understanding of a
certain subject matter. It is a three-dimensional scene used to creatively express
learning.
j. Drawing Kit – It is for individual student designed as a good introduction to drawing.

* Other examples:
1. Newspaper
2. Magazines
3. Drawings
4. Posters
5. Textbooks
6. Flip chart
7. Recording videos, etc.