The document outlines 10 important functions of educational technology in 21st century education: 1) improving teaching methods, 2) analyzing the teaching-learning process, 3) improving learning outcomes, 4) enhancing educational goals, 5) training teachers, 6) developing curricula, 7) developing teaching-learning materials, 8) utilizing teaching-learning strategies, 9) developing audio-visual aids, and 10) helping with overall improvement and meeting community needs. Educational technology aims to optimize the educational system and prepare students for success in today's world.

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

2. • The term “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.
• However, despite learning about the skills that students will
need to develop to become successful in the 21st century, as well
as what beliefs about education may be worth hanging onto or
throwing away, schools and teachers are left trying to figure
out what their role needs to be in the education of their 21st
century students.

3. • Society has changed. We cannot adequately prepare students
for the society that exists today or will exists tomorrow, if we
continue to prepare them for the society that existed yesterday.
• We blend traditions and create unique belief systems that
are not taught in any classroom, but are developed through
our life experiences and passions.
• We transmit our values and cultures without the expectation
of them being adopted by our audience- just accepted by them.
• In order to prepare students to play their role in the 21st
century society we are a part of, the following can be considered
when desiding how education will look in our schools and
classrooms.

5. Instruction should be student-centered
• The days of lecturing teachers has passed- though not
entirely. while student-cantered 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
• Students need to connect the new information with the
knowledge they already have and
apply it to solve the problem at hand. They will not able
to call upon a teacher to answers, so will need to have
'learned how to learn ' on their own. In this class room
model, the teacher would act as facilitator for the
students.
• The students would gather information on their own,
under the guidance of their teacher.

6. • Different learning styles are encouraged, and students have an enhanced sense of
motivation and responsibility.
• They engage in many different types of hands-on activities, as well as demonstrate
learning in many different ways.
• Learning is about discovery, not the memorization of facts.

7. Education should be collaborative
• Students must learn how to work with others.
• Students should be encouraged to work together to
discover information, piece it together, and construct
meaning.
• Collaboration should also be dynamic.
• Students should recognize the different strengths and
talents each person can bar ng to a project, and change
roles depending on those attributes.
• Schools should also be collaborating with other
educational institutions around the world to share
information and learn about different practices or
methods that have been developed.
• They should be willing to alter their instructional
methods in light of new advancements.

8. Learning should have context
• Learning facts and knowledge about a content area
topic is an important prerequisite to understanding
that topic and then developing expertise. The key to
this understanding is providing a context for the facts.
The context becomes the glue to increase the stickiness,
the longevity of long term memory of those facts.
This is especially true for abstract concepts. These
concepts need something concrete with which to attach.
• Authentic learning can be the driving force for increasing
context and relevancy. Jan Herrington describes
authentic learning along two axes – the authenticity of
the task is on one axis (from authentic to decontextualised),
and the setting is on the other (the classroom/university
to the real setting). The goal of educators should be to
increase authenticity which leads to more contextual l
earning (and vice versa).

9. There is a call for action to integrate technology as a
fundamental building block into education in three
broad areas:
• Use of technology comprehensively to develop proficiency in
21st century skills.
• Use of technology comprehensively support innovative
teaching and learning.
• Use of technology comprehensively create robust education
• support systems.

10.  Knowledge of core content is necessary, but no longer
sufficient, for success in a competitive world. Even if
all students mastered core academic subjects, they still
would be woefully under prepared to succeed in
postsecondary institutions and wok places , which
increasing value people who can use their knowledge
to communicate , collaborative, analyze, create,
innovative, and solve problems. Used
comprehensively, technology helps students develop
21st century skills.

11.  To keep pace with a changing world, schools
need to offer more rigorous, relevant and
engaging opportunities for students to
learn-- and to apply their knowledge and
skills in meaningful ways. Used
comprehensively, technology supports new,
research-based approaches and promising
practices in teaching learning.

12.  To be effective in schools and classrooms,
teachers and administrators need training,
tools and proficiency in 21st century skills
themselves. Used comprehensively ,
technology transforms standards and
assessments, curriculum and instruction,
professional development, learning
environments, and administration.

13. Important Functions
of
Educational Technology

14. 1. Improvement of Teaching
 Educational Technology
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.
 Educational Technology aims at
analyzing the process of
teaching-learning thoroughly. It
tries to find out the different
variables of teaching their
interlinks effects upon each
other, relationships etc. 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.
2. Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process

15. 3. Improvement of
Learning
 Educational Technology
analyses the process of
learning and the related
theories. It facilities more
and more of learning in
less time. It takes the help
of various empirically
established generalizations
from psychology,
sociology, physical
sciences, engineering etc.
 The objectives of education
are being reviewed and
revised with the passage of
time. Educational technology
helps in finding out the right
objectives. Everything in this
universe is undergoing
tremendous changes and
with a very fast speed.
Educational Technology
helps in enhancing the right
objectives in the light of the
changed circumstances and
changed environment.
4. Enhancing Goals of
Education

16. 5. 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
the teachers is the
needed of the hour.
Educational Technology
can render its valuable
help in training of
teachers also.
 Keeping in view the objectives of
education , which have been
finalized by education
technology thereafter, comes the
question of developing right of
type of curriculum. Only a
suitable type of curriculum will
help in the attainment of goals.
 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.
6. Development of Curriculum

17. 7. 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. 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.
 A strategy plays an
important role in the
hands of a teacher in
every teaching-learning
situation. The
knowledge of those
strategies is a must for
every teacher.
8. Teaching-Learning
Strategies

18. 9. Development of
Audio-Visual Aids
 Audio-Visual aids have always
played an important role in
teaching-learning process .
They 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.
 Computer assisted
instructions will help the
learners as well as the teacher
to achieve the goals of this
education more conveniently.
 Educational technology helps in
locating the problems in the
different areas of education. It
also helps in remedying the
drawbacks. 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. Thus , educational
technology can revolutionize the
whole process of teaching
learning.
10. Help in Overall
Improvement

19.  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. Then it
tries to improve the community in every
possible way.

20. Prepared by :
Jennelyn E. Tambayag
BSED-2F
Schedule:
8:30 – 9:30 Monday to Friday
Submitted to
Ms. Maria Estella Balbuena