Unit 3: 1.

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THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN DELIVERING THE CURRICULUM
Desired Learning Outcomes:
1) Discuss the roles of technology in curriculum delivery
2) Identify the factors in technology selection including the use of visual aids
Take off
The role of technology in the curriculum springs from the very vision of the e-
Philippine plan (e stands for electronic). Thus it is sated: “an electronically
enabled society where all citizens live in an environment that provides quality
education, efficient government services, greater sources of livelihood and
ultimately a better way of life through enhanced access to appropriate
technologies”.
This points to the need for an e- curriculum, or a curriculum which delivers
learning consonant with the Information Technology and Communication
Technology (ICT) revolution.
Content Focus
Instructional media may also be referred to as media technology or learning
technology, or simply technology. Technology plays a crucial role in delivering
instruction to learners.
Technology offers various tools of learning and these range from non-
projected and projected media from which the teacher can choose, depending
on what he/ she sees fit with the intended instructional setting.
In the process, what ensues is objective- matching where the teacher decides
on what media or technology to use to help achieve the set learning
objectives.
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, worksheets) Films
Visuals (drawings, photographs, Video, VCD, DVD
graphs, charts, posters) Computer/ multimedia presentations
Visual boards (chalkboard,
whiteboard, flannel board, etc.)
Audio Materials

Factors in Technology Selection

In deciding in which technology to use from a wide range of media available,
the factors on which to base selection are:
1. Practicality- is the equipment (hardware) or already prepared lesson
material (software) available? If not, what would the cost in acquiring the
equipment or producing the lesson in audial or visual form?
2. Appropriateness in relation to the learners. Is the medium suitable to the
learners’ ability to comprehend? Will the medium be a source of plain
amusement or entertain, but not learning?
3. Activity/ Sustainability. Will the chosen media fit the set instructional event,
resulting in either information, motivation, or psychomotor display?
4. Objective- matching. Overall, does the medium help in achieving the
learning objective (s)?
The role of Technology in Curriculum Delivery
It can easily be observed that technological innovation in the multifarious
fields of commerce, science, and education, is fast developing such that it is
difficult to foresee the technological revolution in the millennium, inclusive of
educational changes.
Present three current Trends that could the nature of Education in
the Future
1. The paradigm shift from teacher- centered to student- centered approach
to learning
2. The broadening realization that education is not simply a delivery of facts
an information, but an educative process of cultivating the cognitive,
affective, psychomotor, and much more the contemplative intelligence of the
learners of a new age.
3. The increase in the use of new information and communication technology
or ICT.
The primary roles of educational technology in delivering the school
curriculum’s instructional program 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 trough non-
traditional approaches to formal and informal learning, such as Open
Universities and lifelong to adult learners and;
 Revolutionizing the use of technology to boost educational paradigm
shifts that give importance to student- centered and holistic learning.
Framework of Technology- Driven Teaching and Learning called TPACK
(1) Technological Knowledge (2) Pedagogical Knowledge (3) Content
Knowledge.
Criteria for the use of Visual Aids
Learners say, we learn 83% through the use of sight, compared with less
effective ways to learn: hearing (10%), smell (4%), touch (2%) and taste
(1%). in the use of visuals for a wide range of materials (visual boards,
charts, overhead transparencies, slides, computer- generate presentations),
there are basic principles of basic design.
Assess a visual material or presentation (a transparency or slide) using the
following criteria:
 Visual elements (pictures, illustrations, graphics):
1. Lettering style or font---- consistency and harmony
2. Numbering of lettering style---- no more than 2 in a static display (chart,
bulletin board)
3. Use of capitals----- short titles or headlines should be no ore than 6 words
4. Lettering colors---- easy to see and read. Use of contrast is good for
emphasis
5. Lettering size---- good visibility even for students at the back of the
classroom
6. Spacing between letters---- equal and even spacing
7. Spacing between lines---- not too close as to blur at a distance
8. Number of lines--- no more than 8 lines of text in each transparency/ slide
9. Appeal--- unusual/ catchy, two- dimensional, interactive (use of overlays or
movable flaps)
10. Use of directionals--- devices (arrows, bold letters, bullets, contrasting
color and size, special placement of an item.