2. Instruction should be student-
centered
 Education is no longer about listening to the teacher
talk and absorbing the information.
 They will not 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.

3. Education should be
collaborative
 Students must learn how to collaborate with others.
 Students should be encouraged to work together to
discover information, piece it together, and construct
meaning.
 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.

4. Learning should
have context
 Student-centered does not mean that the teacher gives
up all control of the classroom.
 Teacher can make a point of helping students to
understand how the skills they are building can be
applied in their lives.
 Lessons have little purpose if they do not have any
impact in a students life outside of the school.

5. The Role of Technology in
21st Century Learning
 Technology allows for 24/7 access to information
 Constant social interaction, and
 Easily created and shared digital content

6. Important
Functions of
Educational
Technology

7. Improvement of
Teaching
 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 etc. by developing the theories of teaching.

8. Analysis of Teaching-
Learning Process
 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.

9. Improvement of
Learning
 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. Enhancing Goals of
Education
 Being reviewed and revised with the passage time.
 Helps in finding out the right objectives.
 Helps in enhancing the right objectives in the light of
the changed circumstances and changed environment

11. Training to 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 training of the teacher also.

12. Development of
Curriculum
 Teaching-learning materials are also as important as
anything else in the teaching-learning process. They
have to be in accordance with the environment of the
learners

13. 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.

14. 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

15. Help in Overall
Improvement
 Helps in locating the problems in different areas of
education. It also helps in remedying the draw-backs.

16. Identification of Needs of the
Community
 Educational Technology identifies the needs of the
community. It helps in providing equal educational
opportunities to backward people, disadvantaged
students and deprived sections of the society.

17. The End