edtech

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

2. Our world is changing, and in order to prepare
our children for this new world we need to change
the way we educate them. • The term 21st century
has become the central part of education thinking
and planning for the future. Administrators and
Teachers are actively searching for ways to prepare
students for the future, and the educational system
has been evolving faster than ever before.

3. A classroom no longer consists of four walls with
a blackboard and a lecturer in front, talking to
students instead of interacting with them.
 Interactive whiteboards, tablet PCs, projectors
and a host of other tools allow teachers to present
information in ways that prompt discussion and
collaboration.

4. INPUT DEVICES
Technology, in one form or another, has
always been part of the teaching and
learning environment. It is part of the
teacher’s professional toolbox. In other
words, it is among the resources that
teachers use to help facilitate student
learning.

5. Instruction should be student- centered
• Students are directly involved and invested in the
discovery of their own knowledge.
• In this classroom model, the teacher would act as
facilitator for the students. Instead of passively
receiving information, the students would gather
information on their own, under the guidance of
their teacher.

6. Education should be collaborative
• Student must learn how to collaborate with
others. Through collaboration and
cooperation with others, students engage in
experiential learning that is authentic,
holistic, and challenging.

7. Learning should have context
• Student-centered does not mean that the
teacher gives up all control of the classroom.
While students are encouraged to learn in
different ways, the teacher still provides
guidance as to the skills that need to be
acquired.

8. Learning should have context
Student-centered does not mean that the
teacher gives up all control of the classroom.
While students are encouraged to learn in
different ways, the teacher still provides
guidance as to the skills that need to be
acquired.

9. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS
OF EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
Improvement of Teaching

10. Education 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 etc. By developing the theories of
teaching, it helps in improving the quality of
education.

11. ANALYSIS OF THE
TEACHING- LEARNING
PROCESS
Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process

12. Education 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, relationships, etc. It also concerned
with various phases of teaching.

13. IMPROVEMENT OF
LEARNING
Educational technology analyses the process of
learning and the related theories. It facilitates more
and more of learning in less time. • Overhead
initially served the purpose of entertaining children.

14. ENHANCING GOALS OF
EDUCATION
Education 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.

15. TRAINING TO TEACHERS
 The changed type of environment with new curriculum and
new materials is to be handles by the teachers.
 The use of a projector enables teachers to move more
quickly through material, avoiding students and their questions
by cutting out distractions and anything that may slow down
the information progress.

16. DEVELOPMENT OF
CURRICULUM
Keeping in view the objectives of education,
which have been a new materials is to be handles by
the teachers. Right type of question of developing
right type of curriculum. Only a suitable curriculum
will help in attainment of goals.

17. DEVELOPMENT OF
TEACHING- LEARNING
MATERIALS
 Teaching-learning materials are also as important as
anything else in the teaching- learning process. They have to
be accordance with the environment of the learners. Only
right type if materials will able to modify the behavior of the
learner suitably making him a fit person for the society.

18. TEACHING-LEARNING
STRATEGIES
A strategy plays an important role in the hands of
a teacher in every teaching-learning situation. •
Overhead projector also works as a great classroom
management strategy to the teachers.

19. DEVELOPMENT OF
AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS
 Audio-visual aids have always played an important role in
the teaching-learning process.
 Overhead projector slides/transparencies are displayed on
the overhead projector (OHP) - a very useful tool found in
most lecture and seminar rooms. The OHP projects and
enlarges your slides onto a screen or wall without requiring the
lights to be dimmed.

20. HELPS IN OVERALL
IMPROVEMENTS
 Educational Technology helps in locating the problems in the
different areas or education. It also helps in remedying the draw-
backs. Evaluation of teaching-learning process is also made better
because through feedback, things are improved thoroughly and there
is better control over the process of education.
 The overhead projector is a great teaching tool as well as a
powerful technique for maintaining order in your classroom.

21. IDENTIFICATION OF
NEED OF THE
COMMUNITY
 Education Technology identifies the need of the
community. It helps in providing equal education
opportunities to backward people, disadvantaged
students and deprived sections of the society.