educational technology

2. The term 21st century has become the central
part of educational thinking and planning for
the future. 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.

3.  Instruction should be student-centered
 Education should be collaborative
 Learning should have context

4. 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
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. In this classroom model, the teacher
would act as a facilitator.

5. Students should be encourage to work
together to discover information piece it
together and construct meaning.
Collaboration should also be dynamic.
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

6. Student-centered does not mean that the
teacher gives up all control of the classroom.
While students are encouraged to learn in
different ways, the teacher till 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.
Students will be much more motivated to learn
something that they can see the value in.

7.  Improvement of teaching
 Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
 Improvement Of Learning
 Enhancing goals of education
 Training to teachers
 Development of curriculum
 Development of Teaching-Learning
Materials

8.  Teaching – Learning strategies
 Development of Audio- Visual Aids
 Help in Overall Improvement
 Identification of needs of the community

9. IMPROVEMENT OF
LEARNING
Analyses 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
generalizations from
psychology,
sociology,physical
sciences. Engineering
etc.
ENHANCING GOALS OF
EDUCATION
The objectives of
education are being
reviewed and revised
with the passage of time.
Educational technology
helps in finding out the
right objectives.
Educational technology
helps in enhancing the
right objectives in the
light of the changed
circumstances and
changed environment.

10. IMPROVEMENT OF
TEACHING
Analyses the process of
teaching 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 of teaching,
maxims of teaching etc. By
developing the theories of
teaching , it helps in
improving the quality of
education.
ANALYSES OF THE
TEACHING-LEARNING
PROCESS
Aims at analyzing the process
of teaching-learning
thoroughly. It also
concerned with various
phases of teaching. The
principles of teaching and
the maxims of teaching are
also evaluated by it. Over
all, it tries to establish
better relationship between
teaching and learning.

11. TRAINING TO TEACHERS
Right type of training to
teachers is the need of
the hour. Educational
technology can render
its valuable help in the
training to teachers also.
DEVELOPMENT
CURRICULUM
Curriculum is the total
teaching learning
environment, which has
to be modified and
remodeled in the light of
latest thoughts.
Educational technology
can do this job of
developing a suitable
curriculum appropriately.

12. DEVELOPMENT OF
TEACHING-LEARNING
MATERIALS
In this age of science and
technology , the materials
of teaching cannot be
unscientific. Everything in
the society including values
of life need be reflected in
the materials. Only right
type of materials will able
to modify the behavior of
the learner suitably making
him a fit person for the
society.
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.
The different strategies are
being evolved by
educational technology.
The knowledge of those
strategies is a must for
every teacher.

13. DEVELOPMENT OF
AUDIO VISUAL AIDS
Need to be used
according to the times.
The software aids, the
hardware aids, the
computer and other such
appliances, equipment,
etc., 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. 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.

14. 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. Then It tries to improve the community
in every possible way.