Educ2D Project

1. ROLES AND FUNCTIONS of
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY in
the 21st CENTURY EDUCATION

2. The term 21st century has become the central
part of education thinking and planning for
the future.
 Administrators and Teachers are actively
searching for ways on how to prepare the
students on the fast pace evolution of the
educational system.

3. 21st education is about making sure that all
students are prepared to succeed in a
competitive world- especially to those highly
skilled individuals.
21st education is not about changing the old
tradition on how to teach the students but to
create unique techniques, improve and to use
digital system in teaching students in the new
generation.

4. 1. Instruction should be
Student-centered
This 21st century education strongly
encourage the student centered because of
the use of the digital computers.
The days of lecturing students has passed-
though not entirely. This doesn’t mean that
the teacher can never give a lecture again.

5. In this generation, education is no longer
about listening to the teachers discussion and
absorbing of new information.
The students will gather information on their
own, under the guidance of the teacher and
they will connect their new information to the
knowledge they already have and apply it to
solve their problems at hand.

6. 2. Education should be
collaborative
Students must need to collaborative with
others. They must be encouraged to work
together to gather and discover information,
put it together and construct its meaning.
To achieve unity, the students should have the
attitude of cooperating with one another. To
learn about different practices and methods
that have been developed

7. 3. Learning should have
context
The teachers role is not about giving all the
information and control in the classroom but
to provide guidance to encouraged students
to learn in different ways.
Students are more inclined to find information
by the use of internets through cellphones
and computers in the social networking site.

8. The Role of Technology in
21st century Learning
1. Technology allows 24/7 access to
information;
2. Constant interaction; and
3. Easily created and shared digital
content

9. The THREE BROAD AREAS as a
fundamental building block into
education

10. 1. Use technology
comprehensively to develop
proficiency in 21st century
skills
With the use of the Technology
comprehensively, it helps the students to
use their knowledge to communicate,
collaborate, analyze, create, innovate and
solve problems.

11. 2. Use technology
comprehensively to support
innovative teaching and
learning
Use technology comprehensively to support
new, research-based approaches in teaching
learning practices to keep the fast pace of the
changing world, schools must offer more
engaging opportunities for students to learn
and apply their knowledge and skills in
different ways.

12. 3.Use technology
comprehensively to create
robust education support
systems
Use technology comprehensively to have
effective and proficiency in schools and
classrooms where technology transforms
standards and assessments, curriculum
and instruction, professional
development, learning environments and
administrations.

13. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY

14. 1. Improvement of Teaching
Educational technology analyses the
process of teaching which find some
different variables of teaching, their
interlinks, effects upon each other,
relationships, theories of teaching,
phases of teaching principles of teaching
and by developing the theories of
teaching in improving the quality of
education.

15. 2. Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process
Educational technology aims at analyzing
the process of teaching-learning process
which tries to find out the different
variables of teaching their interlinks and
the relationship of each other that is
concern with various phases of teaching.

16. 3. Improvement of Learning
Educational technology analyses the
process of learning and its theories to
facilitates more and more learning in less
time which takes the help of various
empirically established generalizations
from psychology, sociology and other
fields.

17. 4. Enhancing Goals of
Education
The objectives of education are
being reviewed and revised with the
passage of time where educational
technology helps in finding out the
right objectives in the light of the
changed circumstances and changing
environment.

18. 5. Training to Teachers
The changed type of environment
with the new curriculum and new
materials is to be handled by the
teachers. The Educational technology
can render its valuable help in the
right type of training teachers.

19. 6. Development of Curriculum
A suitable type of curriculum will help in
the attainments of goals. Curriculum is
the total teaching-learning environment,
which has to be modified and remodeled
in the light of latest thoughts.
Educational technology can do this job of
developing a suitable curriculum
appropriately.

20. 7. Development of Teaching-
Learning Materials
Teaching-learning materials are
important as anything else in teaching-
learning process which has to be with the
accordance of the society and
environment of the learners including
the values of life needed to be reflected
in the materials.

21. 8. Teaching-Learning
Strategies
The different strategies of the
teacher must be the right one
which should be according to the
materials and is able to bring
about effective teaching learning.

22. 9. Development of Audio-
Visual Aids
The audio-visual aids must be used
according to the times and the software
aids, hardware aids, computers and other
such appliances and equipment are used
in the present type of teaching-learning
environment.

23. 10. Help in overall
Improvement
Education technology can revolutionize the
whole process of teaching learning and it
helps locating the problems in different
areas of education and the evaluation of
the teaching-learning process also made
better because through feedback, things
are improved thoroughly and there is
better control over the process of
education.

24. 11. Identification of Needs
of the Community
Educational technology identifies the
needs of the community form time to
time . It improves the community in
every possible way and it helps in
providing equal education opportunities
to backward people, disadvantaged
students and deprived sections of the
society.