2. What is Educational Technology?
Educational Technology basically means all the
intellectual and operational efforts made during
recent years to regroup, arrange and systematize the
application of scientific method.
Educational Technology id the development,
application and evaluation of systems, techniques
and aids to improve the process of human learning.
3. Roles and Function of
Educational
Technology in the 21st
Century Education
4. 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.
Globalization has opened up the world and allowed
people to connect in new and exciting ways. We blend
traditions and create unique belief system that are not
taught in any classroom, but are developed through our life
experiences and passion.
5. Instruction should be student-centered
•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.
•Will need to have ‘learned how to
learn’ in their own.
•Different styles are encouraged, and
students have an enhanced sense of
motivation and responsibility.
6. Education should collaborative
• Students must learn how to
collaborate with others. Society
today has people collaborating
across the globe.
• Students should be encourage
to work together to discover
information, piece it together,
and construct meaning.
• School should also be collaborating with other educational
institutions around the world to share information and learn
about different practices or method s that have been
developed.
7. Learning should have context
Student centered does not mean
that the teacher gives up all control
of the classroom. While students
encourage to learn in different ways.
The teacher still provides guidance
as to the skills that need to be
acquired.
The teacher can make a point of
helping students to understand
how the skills they are building
can be applied in their lives.
Lesson have little purpose if they do not have any impact in a
students life outside of the school.
8. The Role of Technology in
21st century Learning
Technology allows for 247 access to
information.
Constant social interaction, and
Easily created and shared digital content
10. Improvement of teaching
Educational technology analysis the
process of teaching thoroughly. It
tries to find out the different various
of teaching, there interlinks effects
upon each other relationships
theories of teaching phases of
teaching principles of teaching,
maxims of teaching by developing
the theories of teaching it helps in
improving the quality of education.
11. Analysis of the teaching learning process
Educational technology aims at analyzing
the process of teaching learning
thoroughly. It is also concerned with
various phases of teaching.
12. Improvement of learning
Educational technology analysis the process of learning and the
related theories.
It facilitates more and more of learning in less time. It takes the
help of various empirically established generalization from
psychology, sociology, physical sciences, engineering etc,.
13. Enhancing goals of education
The objectives of education are being reviewed
and revised with the passage of time.
Educational technology helps in enhancing the
right objectives everything in this universe ids
undergoing tremendous changes and with a very
fast speed.
14. Training to teachers
The changed type of environment with new
curriculum and new materials is to be handled by the
teachers.
Right type of training to teachers is the need of the
hour. Educational technology can render its valuable
help in the training of teachers.
15. Development of Curriculum
Keeping in view of objectives of education, which have
been finalized by education technology thereafter, or
comes the question of developing right type of
curriculum.
Only a suitable curriculum appropriately.
16. Development of teaching learning materials
Teaching learning materials are also as important as
anything else in the teaching learning process . They
have to be in accordance with the environment of the
learners.
Only right type of materials will able to modify the
behavior of the learners suitably in making him a fit
person of the society.
17. Teaching learning strategies
A strategy plays an important role in the
hands of teacher in every teaching learning
situation.
The different strategies are being evolved
by educational technology.
The knowledge of those strategies is a must
for every teacher.
18. Development of Audio Visual Aids
Audio visual aids have always played an
important role in teaching learning process.
They need be used according to the times.
The software aids, the hardware aids, the
computer and other such appliances.
Have to be used in the present type of
teaching learning environment.
19. Help in Overall Improvements
Educational technology helps in locating
the problems in different areas of education.
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.
20. 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.
Educational technology aims at
identifying the needs of the community
from time to time.
