According to a technology integration specialist, 21st century skills students need include discerning information, finding answers to problems, and being comfortable using various applications. Educational technology should make instruction student-centered, education collaborative, and learning contextual. The roles of educational technology are to improve teaching and analyze the teaching-learning process, improve learning and enhance educational goals, train teachers, develop curriculum and teaching-learning materials, strategies and aids, help with overall improvement, and identify community needs.

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

2. According to a technology integration specialist at
ISS in Germany- Matthew Baughman
Twenty-first century skills are :
- skills students will need to be
competitive in their future careers
- the ability to discern information
-to find answers to problems, and to
be comfortable using any number of
applications to be productive

3. Roles
of Educational Technology
 Instruction should be student- centered
 Education should be collaborative
 Learning should have context

4. Functions
of Educational Technology
 Improvement of Teaching
Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
 Improvement of Learning
 Enhancing Goals of Education
 Training to Teachers
 Development of the Curriculum

5.  Development of Teaching-Learning
Materials
 Teaching-Learning Strategies
 Development of Audio-Visual Aids
 Help in Overall Improvement
 Identification of Needs of the Community

6. Prepared by :
Sheryl D. Delima