This document outlines the roles and functions of educational technology in 21st century education. It discusses how education needs to prepare students to be active, successful members of society by developing 21st century skills through student-centered, collaborative learning with real-world context. Educational technology should be used comprehensively to develop these skills, support innovative teaching and learning, and create robust education support systems. The key functions of education technology are to improve teaching, learning, and training as well as develop curriculums, materials, and strategies to enhance education goals and identify community needs.

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

2. 21st Century
• The central part of educational technology
thinking and planning for the future.
• Making sure that will students are prepared to
succeed in a competitive world with plenty of
opportunities for highly skilled individuals and
limited options for everyone else.

3. • Maximizing the impact of technology to
develop proficiency in 21st century skills,
support innovative teaching and learning and
create robust education support systems
• Developed through life experiences and
passions
• Transmit values and cultures

4. The Role of Education
To prepare students to become
• Active
• Successful
• Contributing members of society

5. In our schools and classrooms
Instruction should be:
Student-Centered
• In order to contribute to society, students will need to
be able to acquire new information as problem arise.
They need to connect the new information with the
knowledge they already have and apply it to solving the
problem at hand.
• In this classroom model, the teacher would act as
facilitator for the students.
Students gather information on their own, under the
guidance of their teacher.

6. Use technology
comprehensively to:
• Develop proficiency in 21st century skills
• Support innovative teaching and learning
• Create robust education support system

7. Education should be:
Collaborative
• Students should learn how to recognize the
different strengths and talents each person can
bring to a project, and change roles depending on
those attributes.
• Students should be encouraged to work together
to discover information, piece it together, and
construct meaning.

8. Learning
should have:
Context
• The teacher can make a point of helping
students to understand how the skills they
are building can be applied in their lives.
• Students will be much more motivated to
learn something that they can see the value
in.

9. Important functions of
Education
• Improvement of teaching
• Analysis of theTeaching-Learning
Process
• Improvement of Learning
• Enhancing goals of Education
• Training toTeachers

10. • Development of Curriculum
• Development ofTeaching-Learning
Materials
• Teaching-Learning Strategies
• Development of Audio-Visual Aids
• Help in overall Improvement
• Identification of needs of the
Community