Curriculum Cum Educational Technology and Emerging Technologies for Achieving the SDGs: Role of Emerging Technologies

Abstract

The work set to create some clearer understanding of the messages hidden in the topic by analyzing the relationships between curriculums, educational technology and emerging technologies in the enhancement of national development. The procedure deployed was an analytical method. Hence, the key concepts and variables like education, curriculum, educational technology, emerging technologies and its acceptability, development, economics, education in national development, SDGs, were discussed to provide a guide to arriving at a position on the concept of curriculum cum educational technology and emerging technologies for achieving the SDGs. Perspectives from history, education, science and technology, philosophy, economics and other social sciences were integrated to arrive at some clearer dimensions of emerging technologies and its influence on social structures in production, services, sharing of human resources and positions. However, from this forays, dimensions of how societies and institutions are influenced by curriculum, educational technology and emerging technologies factors were brought to bear on education and issues like conditions within which teachers work, acceptability of emerging technologies by teachers, education technology, state of national economy among others, were identified as crucial to the achievement of SDGs in practice and functionality amongst nations. Thus the author concluded that “it is only until most educational stakeholders at all levels convince and motivate almost all the teachers to accept the emerging technologies and be willing to undergo the required education technology training, will the roles of the emerging technologies impact SDGs in the most effective and efficient manner. It is then the impacts and meaningful use of emerging technologies in serving society will be clearer. Anything short of this is a lip service.