Educational technology plays several important roles in 21st century education. It allows 24/7 access to information from a variety of resources for learners. It also enables constant social interaction through social media where users can share content. Additionally, it makes it easy for students to create and share digital content such as articles and files through messaging programs.
2. The Roles
of Educational Technology in the 21st
Century Education
1. Technology allows 24/7 access to
information.
2. Technology allows constant social
interaction.
3. Easily create and share digital content.
3. Technology allows 24/7 access to
information.
Through our new and advanced technology
learners can demonstrate learning in a
different and exciting way by allowing
everyone to gather information from a wide
variety of resources.
4. Allows constant social interaction
Social networking sites use graphics and text
to allow users to share photos and information
about themselves, chat and play games.
5. Here are the benefits of instant
messaging in the classroom:
1. Encourages contact between students and faculty.
2. Facilities feedback and promotes an active learning.
3. Develops cooperation among students.
4. High levels of interactivity and engagement.
5. Gives confidence to shy students.
6. Alternative way of learning.
7. Presence for distance/remote students.
8. Connect from anywhere-home, school, mobile.
9. Promotes a more informal and intimate student-educator relationship.
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6. Easily create and share digital
content
Students surf the internet for researching and writing articles
meeting a deadline of a certain subject.
Example: Wikipedia is a free , open content online
encyclopedia created through the collaborative effort of a
community of users known as wikipedians. Anyone
registered on the site can create an article for publication;
registration is not required to edit articles. Afterward, we can
copy these files from wikipedia and share files by sending
them through Instant Messaging Programs (Yahoo
Messenger, MSN Messenger, Google, Facebook and AOL
Instant Messenger)
7. 21st Century Education system is
about maximizing the impact of
technology to:
1. Develop proficiency in 21st
century skills .
2. Support innovative teaching and
learning.
3. Create a robust education
support system.
9. 1. Improvement of Teaching
Educational Technology analyzes the
process of teaching.
10. 2. Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process
Educational technology analyzes the process
of teaching and learning.
It tries to find out the different variables of
teaching their interlinks upon each other,
relationship etc.
It establish better relationship between
teaching and learning.
11. 3. Improvement of Learning
Educational Technology analyzes the process
of learning and the related theories.
12. 4. Enhancing Goals of Education
Educational Technology helps in finding out
the right objectives and enhancing it in the
light of the changed circumstances and
environment.
13. 5. Training of Teachers
Educational Technology render its valuable
help in the trainings of teachers.
14. 6. Development of Curriculum
Educational Technology develop a suitable
curriculum appropriately that help in the
attainment of goals.
15. 7 Development of Teaching-
Learning Materials
Educational Technology develop teaching
learning materials which will modify the
behavior of the learner suitably making him a
fit person for the society.
16. 8. Development of Teaching-
Learning Strategies
Educational Technology develop strategy
which should be according to the materials
and is able to bring about effective teaching-
learning.
17. 9. Development of Audio-Visual
Aids
Educational Technology develop Audio-Visual
Aids used in the present type of teaching
learning environment.
18. 10. Help in Overall Improvement
Educational Technology helps in locating the
problems in the different areas of education.
19. 11. Identification of Needs of the
Community
Educational Technology aims at identifying
the needs of the community from time to time
to improve the community in every possible
way.
