Instruction should be student-centered and collaborative. Students need to work together to discover information and construct meaning from it. Learning works best when it provides context for how skills can be applied in real life. Technology plays an important role by providing constant access to information, social interaction, and ways to create and share content. It should be integrated comprehensively to develop 21st century skills, support innovative teaching and learning, and create robust education support systems.

2. Instruction should be student-centered
The days of lecturing teachers has passed, though
not entirely. While student-centered learning is strongly
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. In order to contribute to
society, students will need to be able to acquire new
information as problems arise.

3. Education should be collaborative
Students must learn how to collaborate with
others. Society today has people collaborating across the
globe. Students should be encouraged to work together
to discover information, piece it together, and construct
meaning.

4. Learning should have context
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 still
provides guidance s 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.

5. The Role of Technology in 21st Century
Learning
• Technology allows for 24/7 access to
information
• Constant social interaction, and
• Easily created and shared digital content

6. Integrating technology as a fundamental building block
into education three broad areas
Use technology comprehensively to develop proficiency in 21st
century skills.
Knowledge of core content is necessary, but no
longer sufficient, for success in a competitive world.
Use technology comprehensively to support innovative teaching
and learning.
To keep pace with a changing world, schools
need to offer more rigorous, relevant and engaging
opportunities for students to learn and apply their
knowledge and skills in meaningful ways.

7. Use technology comprehensively to create robust
education support systems
To be effective in schools and classrooms,
teachers and administrators need training, tools and
proficiency in 21st century skills themselves.

8. Important functions of Educational Technology
Improvement of Teaching
Educational Technology analyses the process of
teaching thoroughly.
Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
Edtech aims at analyzing the process of teaching-
learning thoroughly.
Improvement of Learning
Edtech analyses the process of learning and the
related theories.

9. Enhancing Goals of Education
Edtech helps in enhancing the right objectives in the
light of the changed circumstances and changed
environment.
 Training to Teachers
The changed type of environment with new
curriculum and new materials is to be handled by the
teachers.
 Development of Curriculum
Keeping in view the objectives of education, which
have been finalized by education technology thereafter,
comes the question of developing right curriculum.

10.  Development of Teaching-Learning 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.
 Development of Audio-Visual Aids
The software aids, hardware aids have to be used in
the present type of teaching-learning environment.

11.  Help in Overall Improvement
Educational Technology helps in locating the
problems in the different areas of education. It also helps
in remedying the draw-backs.
 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.