1. ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE
21st CENTURY EDUCATION
NAME: LILANIE V. BELLINGAN
SCHEDULE: 9:30-10:30 AM M-F

2. The term “ 21st century” has become the central part
of educational thinking and planning for the future.
Administrator and Teachers are actively searching
for ways to prepare students for the future, and the
educational system has been evolving faster than
ever before. Creating a 21st century educational
system is about making sure that all students are
prepared to succeed in a competitive world-a world
with plenty of opportunities for highly skilled
individuals and limited options for everyone else. It’s
about maximizing the impact of technology to
develop proficiency in 21st century skills, support
innovative teaching and learning, and create robust
education support systems. In order to prepare
students to play their role in the 21st century society
we are a part of, the following can be considered
when deciding how education will look in our
schools and classrooms.

3. 1. Instuction should be student-centered
Education is no longer about listening to the
teacher talk and absorbing the information.
In order to contribute to society, students will
need to be able to acquire new information
as problems arise. Then, they will need to
connect the new information with the
knowledge they already have and apply it to
solving the problem at hand. They will not be
able to call upon a teacher for answers,so
will need to have ‘ learned how to learn ‘ on
their own. In this classroom model, the
teacher would act as a facilitator for the
students.

4. 2. Education should be collaborative
Students must learn how to collaborate
with others. Society today has people
collaborating across the globe.
Students should be encourage to work
together to discover information, piece
it together, and construct meaning.
Collaboration should also be dynamic.
Students should learn how to
recognize the different strengths and
talents each person can bring to a
project, and change roles depending
on those attributes.

5. 3. Learning should have context
The teacher can make a point of helping students to
understand how the skills they are building can be
applied in their lives. Students will be much more
motivated to learn something that they can see the value
in.
Technology is a tool, a way for fact-based learning and
allows students to do a lot of the research using the
Internet and various tools. And at the same time these
students are learning very valuable research skills, which
they can transplant at high levels of education, at
universities and beyond.
THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN 21ST CENTURY
LEARNING:
1.Technology allows for 24/7 access to information

6. IMPORTANT
FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY

7. 1.Improvement of Teaching
Educational Technology analyses the
process of teaching thoroughly. It tries
to find out the different variables of
teaching,their interlinks, effects upon
each other, relationships,theories of
teaching, it helps in improving the
quality of education.

8. 2.Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process
Educational Technology aims at analyzing the
process of teaching-learning thoroughly. It
tries to find out the different variables of
teaching their interlinks effects upon each
other, relationship etc. It is also concerned
with various phases of teaching. The
principles of teaching and the maxims of
teaching are also evaluated by it. Over all, it
tries to establish better relationship between
teaching and learning.

9. 3.Improvement of Learning
Educational Technology analyses the
process of learning and the related
theories. It facilitates more and more of
learning in less time. It takes the help
of various empirically established
generalizations from psychology,
sociology, physical
sciences,engineering etc.

10. 4.Enhancing Goals of Education
The objective of education are being
reviewed and revised with the passage
of time. Educational technology helps
in finding out the right objectives.
Everything in this universe is
undergoing tremendous changes and
with a very fast speed. Educational
technology helps in enhancing the
right objectives in the light of the
changed circumstances and changed
environment.

11. 5.Training to Teaachers
The changed type of environment with
new curriculum and new materials is to
be handled by the teachers. Right type
of training to the teachers is the need
of the hour. Educational technology
can render its valuable help in the
training of teachers also.

12. 6.Development of Curriculum
Keeping in view the objectives of education,
which have been finalized by education
technology thereafter, comes the question of
developing right type of curriculum. Only a
suitable type of curriculum will help in the
attainment 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.

13. 7.Development of Teacher-
Learning Materials
Teaching- learning materials are also
important as anything else n the
teaching-learning process. They have
to be in accordance with the
environment of the learners.

14. 8.Teaching-Learning Strategies
A strategy plays an important role in the
hands of a teacher in every teaching-
learning situation. The strategy has to
be right one, which should be
according to the materials and is able
to bring about effective teaching
learning. The different strategies are
being evolved by educational
technology. The knowledge of those
strategies is a must for every teacher.

15. 9.Development of Audio-
Visual Aids
Audio- Visual aids have always played an
important role in the teaching-learning
process. They need be used according
to the times. The software aids, the
hardware aids, the computer and other
such appliances, equipment etc., have
“ to be used in the present type of
teaching-learning environment.

16. 10.Help in Overall Improvement
Educational technology helps in locating
the problems in the different areas of
education. It also helps in remedying
the draw-backs. Evaluation of the
teaching-learning process is also
made better because through feedback,
things are improved thoroughly and
there is better control over the process
of education.

17. 11.Identification of Needs of the
Community
Educational technology identifies the needs of
the community. It helps in providing equal
education opportunities to backward people,
disadvantaged students and deprived
sections of the society. Educational
technology aims at identifying the needs of
the community from time to time. Then it
tries to improve the community in every
possible way.

18. THE END....
Lilanie Bellingan Beed 2nd yr.
Educ 2a (9:30-10:30am) M-F