The document discusses the roles and functions of educational technology in the 21st century. It outlines that education needs to be student-centered, collaborative, and provide context for learning. Educational technology can be used to develop 21st century skills through innovative teaching, and to create robust support systems. It also describes important functions of educational technology like improving teaching and learning, enhancing educational goals, training teachers, developing curriculum, and helping with the overall improvement of the education system.

1. Rendelbert P. Jamil
BSED-MATH 2
3:30-4:30 P.M.

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

3. 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. In order to prepare
students to play their
role in the 21st society,
the following are
considered when
deciding how
education will look like.

4. 1. Instruction should be student-
centered
- education is no longer about
listening to the teacher talk and
absorbing the information. In order
to contribute to society, students will
need to be able to acquire new
information as problems arise.

5. 2. Education should be collaborative
- students must learn how to collaborate
with others.
3. Learning should have context
- students are encouraged to learn in
different ways, the teacher still provides
guidance as to the skills that need to be
acquired.

6. 3 Broad Areas to Integrate
Technology as a Fundamental
Building Block into Education
1. Use technology comprehensively to
develop proficiency in 21st century skills.
2. Use technology comprehensively
innovative teaching and learning,
3. Use technology comprehensively to
create robust education support
system.

7. Important functions of Educational
Technology
1. Improvement of Teaching
- educational technology analyses
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, maxims of teaching and etc.

8. 2. Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
- educational technology aims at analyzing the
process of teaching-learning thoroughly.
3. Improvement of Learning
- educational technology analyses the process
of learning and the related theories. It facilitates
more and more of learning in less time.

9. 4. Enhancing Goals of Education
- the objectives of education are being
reviewed and revised with the passage of
time.
5. Training to Teachers
- 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.

10. 6. Development of Curriculum
- keeping in view the objectives of
education, which have been familiarized by
education technology thereafter, comes the
question of developing right type of
curriculum.
7. Development of Teaching-Learning
Process
- teaching-learning materials are also as
important as anything else in the teaching-
learning process.

11. 8. Teaching-Learning Strategies
- the strategy has to be the right one,
which should be according to the materials
and is able to bring about effective teaching
learning.
9. 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.

12. 10. 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.

13. 11. 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.

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