Roles and functions of educational technology in the 21st century
2. • Students are the one
who construct their
own ideas towards
learning's.
• Education is no
longer about listening
to the teacher talk but
the students are the
one who acquire new
information.
4. Student – centered does
not mean that the teacher
gives up all control all of the
classroom. The teacher can
make a point of helping
students to understand how
the skills they are building
can be applied to their lives
Learning must have a
significant to the lives of
every learners.
5. Improvement of Teaching
-Analysis the process of teaching thoroughly.
It tries to found out the different variables of
teaching their interlinks, effects upon each
other, relationship, theories of teaching, it
helps in improving the quality of educators.
6. Analysis of the Teaching- Learning Process 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 and etc. It is also
concerned with various phases of teaching. The
principle of teaching and the maxims of teaching
are also evaluated by it.
7. Improvement of Learning
-It analysis 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 generalization
from psychology, sociology, physical sciences,
engineering and others.
8. Training to Teachers
The changed type of environment with a new
curriculum and new materials is to be
handed by the teachers. Right type of
training to the teachers is the need of the
hour. Educational Technology can render its
valuable help in training of teachers also.
9. Enhancing Goals of Education
The objectives of education are being reviewed
and revised with the passage of time. It helps in
finding out the right objectives. Educational
Technology helps in enhancing the right
objectives in the light of the changed
circumstances and changed environment.
10. Development of Curriculum
Curriculum is the total teaching-learning
environment which has to be modified and
remodeled in the light or latest thoughts.
Educational Technology can do this job by
developing a suitable curriculum
appropriately.
11. Development of Teaching-Learning Materials
Teaching-learning materials are also
important as anything else in the teaching-
learning process. They have to be in
accordance to the environment of the
learners. The materials of teaching be in
unscientific . Everything in the society
including the values of life need be reflected
in the materials.
12. Teaching-Learning Strategies
Strategy plays an important role in 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.
13. Development of Audio-Visual Aids
Audio-Visual aids have always played as 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 and others.
14. 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. Thus
education technology can revolutionized the
process of teaching learning process.
15. Identification of the Need of Community
Educational Technology identifies the need of
community. It helps in providing equal
education opportunities to backward people;
disadvantages students and deprived sections
of society. Educational Technology aims and
identifying the needs of the community. Then
it tries to improve the community in every
possible way.