2. Roles and Function of
Educational Technology
in the 21st Century
Education
3. The 21st century has become the central part
of educational thinking and planning for the
future.
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.
It’s about maximizing the impact of
technology to develop proficiency in 21st
century skills, support innovative teaching
and learning, and create robust education
support systems.
4. •Student centered learning is strong encouraged
in the 21st century, this does not mean that the
teacher can never give a lecture again.
•Education is no longer about listening to the
teacher talk and absorbing the Information.
Students will need to be able to acquire new
information as problem arise. Then, they will
need to connect the new Information with the
knowledge they already have and apply it to
solving the problem at hand.
•They will not be able to call upon a teacher for
answers, so will need to have ‘learned how to
learn’ on their own.
•Instead of passively receiving information, the
students would gather information on their own
under the guidance of the teacher.
“Instruction should be student-centered
5. Students must learn how to collaborate
with others.
Should encourage to work together to
discover information, piece it together,
and construct meaning.
students should learn how to recognize
the different strenght and talents each
person can bring to a project, and change
roles depending on those attributes.
School should also be collaborating with
other educational institutions around the
world to share iinformation and learn
about different practices or method s
that have been developed.
Education should be
collaborative
6. Students are encourage to learn in
different ways.
The teacher can make a point of
helping students to understand how
the skills they are building can applied
to their lives.
Students will be much more
motivated to learn something that
they can see the value in.
Lessons have little purpose if they do
not have any impact in a student’s life
outside the school.
Learning should have
context
7. The Role of Technology in 21st
century Learning:
Technology allows
24/7 access to
information
Constant social
interaction, and
Easily created and
shared digital content
8. Three Broad areas:
Use technology comprehensively to develop
proficiency in 21st century skills.
Use technology comprehensively to support
innovative teaching and learning
Use technology comprehensively to create robust
education support system
9. Important Functions of Educational Technology
Educational Technology
analyses the process of
teaching thoroughly.
Improvement
of Teaching
Analysis of
the Teaching-
Learning
Process
It tries to find out the
different variables of
teaching interlinks effects
upon each other
relationship
Improvement
of Learning
Analyses the process of
learning and related
theories. It facilitates
more of learning in less
time.
10. Enhancing
Goals of
Education
The objectives of education
are being reviewed and
revised with the passage of
time
Training to
Teachers
The changed type of
environment with new
curriculum and new
materials is to be handled
by the teachers
Development
of
Curriculum
Development
of teaching-
learning
Materials
Suitable type of curriculum
will help in the attainment
of goals
Right type of materials will
able to modify the
behavior of the learner
suitably making him a fit
person in the society
11. Teaching-
Learning
Strategies
The strategy should be
according to the materials
and is able to bring about
effective teaching learning
Developmen
t of Audio-
Visual Aids
Audio-visual have to be
used in the present type
of teaching-learning
environment
Help in
Overall
Improvement
Helps in locating the
problems in the different
areas of Education
Identification
of Needs of
the
Community
Aims at identifying the needs
of the community from time
to time. Then tries to
improve the community in
every possible way
