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The entry of instructional technology into curriculum
planning affects every school librarian. The process removes
from the teacher the total tasks of instructional planning to
others, including the librarians, curriculum specialists, and
the students. With this shift of attention from the teacher,
the requisite theories of instruction have the specific educa-
tional activities which the student experiences.
Robert Heinich has written a great deal about the subject
of technology. Writing in Audiovisual Instruction he states:
By now, it is fairly well accepted that developments
inr newer media--permit us to introduce the technological
process at the curriculum planning level where we may
assign, with confidence, major instructional tasks to
mediated instruction. However, the implications of the
shift in technological. focus from classroom to curriculum
planning--from tactics to strategy--are not at all well
accepted.
Even when we know intellectually that technology makes
a range of instructional choices available at the curricu-
lum planning level, we still tend to shoehorn them. into
traditional management construct. The inner meaning of
the newer media is not that more powerful instruments of
instruction have been made available to the classroom
teacher, instructional design thrust into new roles of i
responsibility, comprehensiveness, and specificity.
Kenneth Galbraith, one of the most respected and best 3
known of American economists puts it simply in his usual articulate
and eloquent manner: 3
Technology means the systematic application of
scientific or other organized knowledge to practical
tasks. Its most important consequence, at least for
purposes of economics, is in forcing the division and
subdivisions of any such task into its component parts.
Thus, and only thus, can organized knowledge be brought
to bear on performance.4
The focus of this paper deals with non-print materials and media and
the technological process brought to bear on developing organized
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Totten, Herman L. Bibliographical Control of Afro-American Literature, Volume 1: Papers Presented at a Conference, book, 1976; [Eugene, Oregon]. (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc31167/m1/46/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.