Technology for Teaching

and Learning 2
Module 1
Learning Plans in the Context of the 21st Century
 The K to 12 Curriculum Framework

The implementation of K to 12 Curriculum of the Department of

Education paved the way for the enhancement of the Teacher
Education Curriculum of the Commission on Higher Education
(CHED). The salient features of the K to 12 Curriculum have been
thoroughly considered to ensure that all the courses in the teacher
education program will meet the demands of the 21 st century
classrooms. One of the considerations is the need to implement the
following salient features of the curriculum through integrating
technologies for teaching and learning.
 The use of technologies is done in the different levels of learning and
in teaching the various fields of specialization.

1. Strengthening Early Childhood Education (Universal Kindergarten)

with the Universal Kindergarten program of the Department, every
Filipino child is expected to have access to early childhood education. This
access can be facilitated using technological tools that are readily available to
the school for teachers’ use.
2. Making the Curriculum Relevant to Learners (Contextualization and
Enhancement)
Research shows that learners will value a curriculum that is relevant to
their lives. Students are often heard saying, “Do I need to know these to live a
meaningful life?” “How will I use this lesson in the actual workplace?” “What
is the relevance of this to me?” and so on.
 Briggs (2014) shared some few tips for making learning
engaging and personally relevant as cited by Willis,
Faeth, and Immordino-Yang:
 Use suspense and keep it fresh – drop hints about a new learning
unit before you reveal what it might be, leave gaping pauses in your
speech, change seating arrangements, and put up new and relevant
posters or displays; all these can activate emotional signals and keep
student interest piqued.
 Make it student-directed – Give students a choice of assignments on
a particular topic, or ask them to design one of their own.
 Connect it to their lives and to what they already know –
Taking the time to brainstorm about what students already know
and would like to learn about a topic helps them to create goals.
 Provide utility value – utility value provides relevance first by
piquing students and by telling them the content is important to
their future goals; it then continues by showing or explaining
how the content fits into their plans for the future. This helps
students realize the content is not just interesting but also worth
knowing.
 Build relatedness – Relatedness, on the other hand, answers
the question, “What have these to do with me?” It is an
inherent need students to feel close to the significant people in
their lives, including teachers. Relatedness is seen by many as
having non-academic and academic sides.

To be able to apply the tips recommended by various experts and

to allow students to realize the value of their curriculum,
technological tool can be used.
3. Building Proficiency (Mother-tongue Based Multilingual
Education) – to be able to promote the child’s dominant language
and to use it as a language of instruction, maximum use of
technological tools is highly encouraged.
4. Ensuring Integrated and Seamless Learning (Spiral
Progression) – Learning basic concepts that lead to a more
complex and sophisticated version of the general concepts entail
TPACK: Technological knowledge, pedagogical knowledge, and
content knowledge.
5. Gearing Up for the Future – the K to 12 Curriculum ensures
college readiness by aligning the core and applied courses to the
College Readiness Standards
(CRS) and the new General Education (GE) Curriculum.
6. Nurturing the Holistically Developed Filipino (College and
Livelihood Readiness, 21st Century Skills) – to nurture
holistically developed Filipino, every K to 12 graduate is expected
to be ready to go into different paths – higher education,
employment, or entrepreneurship.