Roles and function of educational technology in the 21st century education

1. Roles and Functions of Educational
Technology in the 21st Century
Education
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.

2. The following can be considered when
deciding how education will look in
our schools and classrooms.
• Instruction should be student-centered
• Education should be collaborative
• Learning should have context

3. 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.
Technology is tool, a way for fact
based learning and allows students to
do a lot of the research using the
internet and various tools.

4. There is a call for action to integrate
technology as a fundamental building
block into education in three broad
areas:
1.Use technology comprehensively to develop
proficiency in 21st century skills
2.Use technology comprehensively to support
innovative teaching and learning
3.Use technology comprehensively to create
robust education support systems.

5. Important functions of educational
technology
1.Improvement of teaching
- educational technology analyses the
process of teaching thoroughly.
2.Analysis of the teaching-learning process
-educational technology aims at analyzing
the process of teaching-learning thoroughly.

6. 3.Improvement of learning
-educational technology analyses the
process of learning and the related theories.
4.Enhancing goals of education
-the objectives of education are being
reviewed and revised with the passage of
time.

7. 5.Training for teachers
-the change type of environment with new
curriculum and new materials is to be handled
by the teacher.
6.Development of curriculum
-educational technology can do this job of
developing a suitable curriculum
appropriately.

8. 7.Development of teaching-learning materials
-teaching-learning materials are also as
important as anything else in the teaching-
learning process.
8.Teaching-learning strategies
-a strategy plays an important role in the
hands of a teacher in every teaching-learning
situation.

9. 9.Development of audio-visual aids
-audio-visual aids have always played an
important role in teaching-learning process.
10.Help in overall improvements
-educational technology helps in locating the
problems in the different areas of education.

10. 11.Identifion 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 . Educational technology aims at
identifying the needs of the community from
time to time. Then it tries to improve the
community in every possible way.