Non-Digital and Digital Skills and Tools in Delivering Technology-Enhanced Lessons
Teaching becomes rewarding when learners get the most from instructions as manifested in their performance. An important element in engaging learners is when the strategy used in delivering the lessons uses an instructional material.When properly and appropriately used,it can spice up a classroom activity.These instructional materials may come in varied forms.One group refers to the conventional and non-digital tools.A classroom will always need a chalkboard or a writing board that may come in varied forms and shapes.Bulletin boards,flip charts,dioramas,puppets,terrarium,and the like,will always find their significance in any classrooms.However, nowadays,lessons can be made more relevant and engaging for learners as digital tools are integrated.This Module presents both non-digital and digital tools.Explore the possibilities of learning about these tools and how to effectively integrate them in instruction.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 into educational process (Effiong and Igiri,2015).Examples of instructional materials are drawings,kits texbooks,posters,magazines,flipchart,newspapers,diorama,pictures,recording videos and like.Instructional materials have several roles in teaching and learning which include the following: (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 ( Brown et al.,2005; Effiong and Igiri, 2015). Instructional materials are the supplementary materials, which help the teacher to make his/her presentation concrete,effective,interesting,meaningful and aspiring.Instructional materials are a great help in stimulating and facilitating the learning of the learners. According to Wright (1976:1) as cited in Cakir (2006) many media and many styles of visual presentation are useful to the language learner. All audio-visual materials have positive contributions to language learning as long as they are used at the right time, in tne right place.In the teaching and learning process, learners use their eyes as well as their ears; but their eyes are basic in learning.
1.DIORAMA
It will make the classroom to be creative and innovative.It is a fun way to build an exciting scene a small space.Dioramas are small scenes created of layers of materials,all depicting a similar concept or theme.They usually display a historical time period, a nature scene, or a fictional situation.
2.NATURE TABLE
This is a table that contains objects and/or scenes related to the current season, or upcoming festival or a symbol of an ecosystem.Children love to follow the natural changes that the world offers each month and classroom decorations reflect these.
3. WRITING BOARD
A writing board can display information written with chalk (chalkboard or blackboard) or special pens (whiteboard).Although there are usually more effective methods of transmitting information, the writing board is still the most commonly used visual aid.
4. FLIP CHART
It is a large tablet or pad of paper, usually on a tripod or a stand.
5.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.Each board can be of a different type,for example, a whiteboard, a chalkboard, a flannel board and so on.The size of the boards for the zigzag multi-board depends on what you want to use them for.
GUIDLINES when designing conventional instructional materialss;
1. Unity - Use only one idea for each visual aid include a headline.
2. Simplicity - Make ideas and relationships simply and easy to recall.
3. Legibility - Make letters big and readable for all in the audience.
4. Consistency - Use the same type style and art style. 5. Clarity - Avoid type that is too small to read; avoid all caps.
Reflection
It is easy and has a big help for us a teachers to teach a lesson and sharing knowledge using this instructional materials has a effective way in teaching a student in feeding a knowledge in developing the learning interest of student.It is good for teaching using this instructional materials in sharing knowledge.Students become more competitive and competence in terms in their students.Being an educator in the future it has a big help in molding us and efficient to a chosen field in teaching.
Application
As a future educator using this Non-Digital and Digital materials and Technology, it helps us to think of a good strategies to have to apply in teaching.It can make a classroom to be light and creative one’s.I will use this way in teaching to improve and can be effective educator to my future students.
Teaching becomes rewarding when learners get the most from instructions as manifested in their performance. An important element in engaging learners is when the strategy used in delivering the lessons uses an instructional material.When properly and appropriately used,it can spice up a classroom activity.These instructional materials may come in varied forms.One group refers to the conventional and non-digital tools.A classroom will always need a chalkboard or a writing board that may come in varied forms and shapes.Bulletin boards,flip charts,dioramas,puppets,terrarium,and the like,will always find their significance in any classrooms.However, nowadays,lessons can be made more relevant and engaging for learners as digital tools are integrated.This Module presents both non-digital and digital tools.Explore the possibilities of learning about these tools and how to effectively integrate them in instruction.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 into educational process (Effiong and Igiri,2015).Examples of instructional materials are drawings,kits texbooks,posters,magazines,flipchart,newspapers,diorama,pictures,recording videos and like.Instructional materials have several roles in teaching and learning which include the following: (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 ( Brown et al.,2005; Effiong and Igiri, 2015). Instructional materials are the supplementary materials, which help the teacher to make his/her presentation concrete,effective,interesting,meaningful and aspiring.Instructional materials are a great help in stimulating and facilitating the learning of the learners. According to Wright (1976:1) as cited in Cakir (2006) many media and many styles of visual presentation are useful to the language learner. All audio-visual materials have positive contributions to language learning as long as they are used at the right time, in tne right place.In the teaching and learning process, learners use their eyes as well as their ears; but their eyes are basic in learning.
1.DIORAMA
It will make the classroom to be creative and innovative.It is a fun way to build an exciting scene a small space.Dioramas are small scenes created of layers of materials,all depicting a similar concept or theme.They usually display a historical time period, a nature scene, or a fictional situation.
2.NATURE TABLE
This is a table that contains objects and/or scenes related to the current season, or upcoming festival or a symbol of an ecosystem.Children love to follow the natural changes that the world offers each month and classroom decorations reflect these.
3. WRITING BOARD
A writing board can display information written with chalk (chalkboard or blackboard) or special pens (whiteboard).Although there are usually more effective methods of transmitting information, the writing board is still the most commonly used visual aid.
4. FLIP CHART
It is a large tablet or pad of paper, usually on a tripod or a stand.
5.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.Each board can be of a different type,for example, a whiteboard, a chalkboard, a flannel board and so on.The size of the boards for the zigzag multi-board depends on what you want to use them for.
GUIDLINES when designing conventional instructional materialss;
1. Unity - Use only one idea for each visual aid include a headline.
2. Simplicity - Make ideas and relationships simply and easy to recall.
3. Legibility - Make letters big and readable for all in the audience.
4. Consistency - Use the same type style and art style. 5. Clarity - Avoid type that is too small to read; avoid all caps.
Reflection
It is easy and has a big help for us a teachers to teach a lesson and sharing knowledge using this instructional materials has a effective way in teaching a student in feeding a knowledge in developing the learning interest of student.It is good for teaching using this instructional materials in sharing knowledge.Students become more competitive and competence in terms in their students.Being an educator in the future it has a big help in molding us and efficient to a chosen field in teaching.
Application
As a future educator using this Non-Digital and Digital materials and Technology, it helps us to think of a good strategies to have to apply in teaching.It can make a classroom to be light and creative one’s.I will use this way in teaching to improve and can be effective educator to my future students.
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