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1. Submitted By: Cynthia D. Bentulan
Submitted To: Ms. Maria Estela Teo-Balbuena

2. The term “21st century” has become the
central part of educational 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.
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.

3. Instruction
should be student-centered

4.  Our world is changing, and in order to
prepare our children for this new world we
need to change the way we educate them.
 In the 21st century educators must create a
curriculum that will help students connect
with the world and understand the issues
that our world faces.
 In the education world, the term student-
centered classroom is one we hear a lot. And
many educators would agree that when it
comes to 21st-century learning, having a
student-centered classroom is certainly a
best practice.

5.  In student-centered classrooms, students are directly
involved and invested in the discovery of their own
knowledge. Through collaboration and cooperation with
others, students engage in experiential learning that is
authentic, holistic, and challenging
 In a student-centered classroom, students are very much a
part of constructing their own learning in a holistic
environment that capitalizes on student interests. • The
students are encouraged to reflect on their own learning,
share their insights with their peers, and apply new
learning to real-life, authentic experiences. When learners
are the focus, they become fully engaged in the process.
 I believe that the student-centered learning environment
enables an educator to deal effectively with all types of
students in the same classroom. • A student-centered
learning environment encourages students to become
independent learners and ultimately to be in charge of
their own education.

6. Education should be
collaborative

7.  Collaborative learning is a method of teaching and learning
in which students team together to explore a significant
question or create a meaningful project. A group of students
discussing a lecture or students from different schools
working together over the Internet on a shared assignment
are both examples of collaborative learning.
 One of the most critical skills for these individuals who are
involved in providing inclusive education is collaboration.
Through collaboration, ideas can be shared, new and better
strategies can be developed, problems can be solved,
students’ progresses can be better monitored, and their
outcomes are evaluated effectively. True collaboration will
enhance an effective inclusive education and will be
beneficial for all the individuals involved in the child’s
education including parents.

8. Learning
should have context

9.  The more closely we inspect this model of teaching and
testing, the more problematic it reveals itself to be. First,
there’s the question of what students are made to learn,
which often is more oriented to factual material than to a
deep understanding of ideas.
 Second, there’s the question of how students are taught,
with a focus on passive absorption: listening to lectures,
reading summaries in textbooks, and rehearsing material
immediately before being required to cough it back up.
Third, there’s the question of why a student has learned
something: Knowledge is less likely to be retained if it has
been acquired so that one will perform well on a test, as
opposed to learning in the context of pursuing projects and
solving problems that are personally meaningful.
(Alfie Kohn)

10. 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.

11. Functions of
Educational Technology

12. 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
etc. By developing the theories of teaching, it
helps in improving the quality of education.

13. Analysis of the Teaching-Learning
Process:
 Educational Technology aims at
analysing the process of teaching-
learning thoroughly. 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. The principles of teaching
and the maxims of teaching are also
analysed by it. Over all, it tries to
establish better and better relationship
between teaching and learning.

14. Improvement of Learning:
 Educational Technology analyses 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
generalizations from psychology,
sociology, physical sciences,
engineering etc.

15. Fixing up Goals of Education:
 The objectives of education are
being reviewed and revised with the
passage of time. Educational
technology helps in finding out the
right objectives. Everything in this
universe is undergoing tremendous
changes and with a very fast speed.

16. Training to Teachers:
 The changed type of environment with new
curriculum and new materials is to be handled
by the teachers. The teachers equipped with
old strategies and methodologies of teaching
will remain misfits.
 Right type of training to the teachers is the
need of the hour. Educational Technology can
render its valuable help in the training of
teachers also. The use of video tapes and close
circuit T.V. will help the teachers to remodel
and reshape their teaching behaviours suitably.

17. Development of Curriculum:
 Keeping in view the objectives of education
which have been finalised 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.
 Curriculum is the total teaching-learning
environment which has to be modified and
remodeled in the light of latest thoughts. Only
educational technology can do this job of
developing a suitable curriculum appropriately.

18. Development of Teaching-Learning
Materials:
 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. In this age
of science and technology, the materials of
teaching cannot be unscientific.
 Everything of the society including values of life
need be reflected in the materials. Only right
type of materials will able to modify the
behaviour of the learner suitably making him a
fit person for the society. Only educational
technology can develop the required and the
desired type of teaching-learning materials.

19. 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
different strategies are being evolved by
educational technology. The knowledge of those
strategies is a must for every teacher. Then only
the teachers will be able to do justice to their
jobs.

20. Development of Audio-Visual Aids:
 Audio-Visual aids have always played an
important role in the teaching-learning
process. They need 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.

21. 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 and there is
better control over the process of education.
Thus, educational technology can revolutionize
the whole process of teaching-learning.

22. Identification of Needs of the
Community:
 Educational Technology identifies the
needs of the community. It helps in
providing equal education opportunities to
backward people, disadvantaged students
and deprived sections of the society. It
helps education to reach the remotest
corner of the country.

23. Identification of the Needs of
Class-Room Behaviours.
 Educational Technology identifies the needs
of class-room behaviour. As the mass
education has reduced the standard of
education, the use of educational technology
can maintain and improve the standard by
the use of teaching aids and programmed
instruction material. Educational Technology
can inspire the students in the class-rooms
for self-learning.
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