"ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION"

1. ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST
CENTURY EDUCATION

2.  The term 21st century become the central part of
educational thinking and planning for the future.
 Creating a 21st century education 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.
 Maximizing the impact of technology to develop
proficiency in the 21st century skills, support innovative
teaching and learning, and create robust education
support system.
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3. GLOBALIZATION has opened up the world and
allowed the people to connect in new and exciting
ways. We blend traditions and create unique belief
systems that are not taught in any classrooms but
are developed through our life experiences and
passions.
 The role of education is to prepare students to
become active, successful, and contributing
members of society.
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4. In order to prepare students to play their role in the
21st century society, the following can be
considered when deciding how education will look
in our schools and classrooms:
 Instructions should be student-centered.
 Education should be collaborative.
 Learning should have context.
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5. INSTRUCTIONS SHOULD
BE STUDENT-CENTERED
 Education is no longer about
listening to the teacher’s talk and
absorbing the information,
students will need to be able to
acquire new information as
problems arise.

6.  They will need to connect the new
information with the knowledge
they have already have and apply it
to solving the problem at hand.

7.  Students would gather information
on their own under the guidance of
their teacher. Different learning
styles are encourage and students
have an enhanced sense of
motivation and responsibility.

8. EDUCATION SHOULD BE
COLLABORATIVE
 Students must learn how to
collaborate with others. They
should be encouraged to work
together to discover information,
piece it together and construct
meaning.

9. LEARNING SHOULD HAVE
CONTEXT
 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.

10.  The teacher should need to
take a more general approach
and teach them the skills that
are useful in any situation.

11.  Lessons have little
purpose if they do not have
any impact in a student’s life
outside the school.

12. Technology is a tool, a way for
fact-based learning and allow
students to do a lot of the
research using the internet and
various tools.
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13. THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST
CENTURY LEARNING
1. Technology allows for 24/7 access information,
2. Construct social interaction, and
3. Easily created and shared digital content.
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14. EDUCATORS should leverage technology to
create an engaging and personalized environment
to meet the emerging educational needs of our
current generations. It is necessary to embrace this
highly motivational interests and embed it in our
teaching.
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15. THERE IS A CALL FOR ACTION TO INTEGRATE
TECHNOLOGY AS A FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING BLOCK
INTO EDUCATION IN THREE BROAD AREAS:
1. USE TECHNOLOGY COMPREHENSIVELY TO
DEVELOP PROFICIENCY IN 21ST CENTURY SKILLS.
 Knowledge of core content is necessary, but no
longer sufficient, for success in a competitive
world.
 Technology helps students develop 21st century
skills.
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16. 2. USE OF TECHNOLOGY COMPREHENSIVELY TO
SUPPORT INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING.
 Schools need to offer more rigorous, relevant
and engaging opportunities for students to learn.
 Technology supports new, research-based
approaches and promising practices in teaching
and learning.
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17. 3. USE TECHNOLOGY COMPREHENSIVELY TO
CREATE ROBUST EDUCATION SUPPORT
SYSTEMS.
 To be effective in schools and classrooms, teachers and
administrators need training, tools and proficiency in 21st
century skills themselves.
 Technology transforms standards and assessments,
curriculum and instruction, professional development,
learning environments, and administrations.
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18. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

19. 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,
phases of teaching principles of teaching,
maxims of teaching.
 By developing the theories of teaching, it helps
in improving the quality of education.

20. 2. ANALYSIS OF THE TEACHING-
LEARNING PROCESS
 Educational Technology aims at
analyzing the process of teaching-
learning thoroughly.
 It tries to establish better relationship
between teaching and learning.

21. 3. IMPROVEMENT OF
LEARNING
 Analyses the process of learning and
the related theories.
 Facilitates more and more of learning
in less time.
 Helps various empirically established
generalizations from psychology,
sociology, physical sciences, and
engineering.

22. 4. ENHANCING GOALS OF
EDUCATION
 The objectives of education are being
reviewed and revised with the passage of time.
 Helps in finding out the right objectives.
 Helps in enhancing the right objectives in the
light of the changed circumstances and
changed environment.

23. 5. TRAINING TO
TEACHERS
 The changed type of environment with
new curriculum and new materials is to
be handled by the teachers.
 Educational Technology can render its
valuable help in the training of teachers
also.

24. 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.

25. 7. DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING-
LEARNING MATERIALS
 Teaching-learning materials are also important
as anything else in the teaching and learning
process.
 They have to be in accordance with the
environment of the learners.
 Everything in the society including values of
life need to be reflected in the materials.
 Only right type of materials will able to modify
the behavior of the learners suitability making
him a fit person for the society.

26. 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 the right one, which
should be according to the materials and is
able to bring about effective teaching-learning.
 The knowledge of those strategies is a must
for every teacher.

27. 9. DEVELOPMENT OF AUDIO-
VISUAL AIDS
 Audio-visual aids have always played an
important role in the teaching-learning process.
They need to 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”
 Computer assisted instructions will help the
learner as well as the teacher to achieve the
goals of education more conveniently.

28. 10. HELP IN OVERALL
IMPROVEMENT
 Helps in locating the problems in the different
areas of education.
 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
 Educational Technology can revolutionize the
whole process of teaching-learning.

29. 11. IDENTIFICATION OF NEEDS
OF THE COMMUNITY
 Identifies the needs of the community.
 Helps in providing equal education
opportunities to backward people,
disadvantaged students and deprived sections
of society.
 Aims at identifying the needs of the community
from time to time.
 Tries to improve the community in every
possible way.

30. VANESSA ALMARIO BUNAC
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