The document discusses the roles and functions of educational technology in 21st century education. It states that educational technology is needed to prepare students for a competitive world by developing 21st century skills through innovative teaching supported by technology. It outlines key considerations for 21st century instruction, including making learning student-centered, collaborative, and contextual. Additionally, it identifies important functions of educational technology such as improving teaching and learning, developing curriculum and materials, and identifying community needs. Educational technology can help transform education standards, assessments, and support systems to enhance learning in the digital age.

1. ROLES &
FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY IN
THE 21ST CENTURY
EDUCATION
Slide created by: Marguerite Alofa P. O'Brien

2. WHAT IS THE 21ST CENTURY?
 It is dawned as the beginning of the Digital Age- a time of
unprecedented growth in technology and its subsequent
information explosion.

3. WHY DO WE NEED TO CREATE A
21ST CENTURY EDUCATIONAL
SYSTEM?
 It is about making sure that all students are prepared
to succeed in a competitive world. It's about maximizing
the impact of technology to develop proficiency in 21st
century skills, support innovative teaching and learning,
and create robust educational support systems.

4. THINGS TO CONSIDER WHEN
DECIDING HOW EDUCATION
WILL LOOK IN SCHOOLS AND
CLASSROOMS.
1. Instruction should be student-
centered
2. Education should be
collaborative
3. Learning should have context

5. INSTRUCTION SHOULD BE
STUDENT-CENTERED
 The students would gather information on their
own, under the guidance of their teacher.
 Students will need to connect the new information
with the knowledge they already have and apply it to
solving the problem at hand.
 The teacher would act as a facilitator for the
students.
 Learning is about discovery, not the memorization
of facts.

6. EDUCATION SHOULD BE
COLLABORATIVE
 Students must learn how to
collaborate with others.
 Students should be encouraged to
work together to discover information,
place it together and construct meaning.
 Collaboration needs to be dynamic.

7. LEARNING SHOULD
HAVE CONTEXT
 The teacher help students to understand
how the skills they are building can be
applied in their lives.
 Students are much more motivated to
learn something that they see value in.
 Lessons have little purpose if they do not
have any impact in a student's life outside of
school.

8. WHAT IS TECHNOLOGY?
 Technology is a tool, a way for fact-based
learning and allows students to do a lot of
the research using the Internet and various
tools.
 Students are learning very valuable
research skills, which they can transplant at
high levels of education, at universities and
beyond.

9. THE ROLE OF
TECHNOLOGY IN 21ST
CENTURY LEARNING:
1. Technology allows for 24/7
access to information
2. Constant social interaction, and
3. Easily created and shared
digital content.

10. IN THIS SETTING..
 Learners learn in a global classroom, acknowledging that
the classroom extends beyond the physical walls.
 Students rather use gadgets and social networking sites to
find information.
 in this case, we need to use this to our advantage and use it
in our teaching.

11. 3 BROA D A REA S WHERE A CTION IS
CA LLED TO IN TEGRA TE
TECHN OLOGY A S A FUN DA MENTAL
BUILDIN G BLOCK IN EDUCA TION
1. Use technology comprehensively to develop
proficiency in 21st century skills.
2. Use technology comprehensively to support
innovative teaching and learning
3. Use technology comprehensively to create
robust education support systems

12. 1. USE TECHN OLOGY
COM PREHEN SIVELY TO DEVELOP
PROFICIEN CY IN 2 1ST CEN TURY SKILLS.
 Technology is used to help students enhance
their knowledge to communicate, collaborate,
analyze, create, innovate and solve problems.
 These 21st century skills are being increasingly
valuable to postsecondary institutions and
workplaces.

13. 2. USE TECHNOLOGY
COMPREHENSIVELY TO
SUPPORT INNOVATIVE
TEACHING AND LEARNING
 Schools need to offer more rigorous,
relevant and engaging opportunities for
students to learn and apply their knowledge
and skills in meaningful ways.

14. 3. USE TECHNOLOGY
COMPREHENSIVELY TO CREATE
ROBUST EDUCATION SUPPORT
SYSTEMS
 Technology transforms standards and assessments, curriculum and
instruction, professional development, learning environments and
administration.

15. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS
OF EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
 1. Improvement of teaching
 2. Analysis of the teaching-learning process
 3. Improvement of learning
 4. Enhancing goals of education
 5. Training to teachers
 6. Development of curriculum
 7. Development of teaching-learning
materials
 8. Teaching-learning strategies
 9. Development of audio-visual aids
 10. Help in overall improvement
 11. Identification of needs of the community

16. IMPROVEMENT OF
TEACHING
 Educational technology tries to find out the
different variables of teaching, their
interlinks, effects upon eachother,
relationships, theories of teaching, phases of
teaching principles, maxims of teaching, etc.
 Developing the theories of teaching helps
in improving the quality of education.

17. ANALYSIS OF THE
TEACHING-LEARNING
PROCESS
 Educational technology evaluate the
principles of teaching and the maxims of
teaching.
 Educational technology tries to establish
better relationships between teaching and
learning.

18. IMPROVEMENT OF
LEARNING
Educational technology
analyses the process of
learning and the related
theories.
Facilitates more of learning
in less time.

19. ENHANCING GOALS OF
EDUCATION
Objectives of education are
being reviewed and revised with
the passage of time, Educational
Technology helps in finding out
the right objective.

20. TRAINING TO TEACHERS
 Right types of training to
the teachers is badly
needed.
 Educational technology
can render its valuable help
in training teachers.

21. DEVELOPMENT OF
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.

22. DEVELOPMENT OF
TEACHING-LEARNING
MATERIALS
 Teaching-learning materials are important in
the teaching-learning process.
 They need to be in accordance with the
environment of the learners.
 Only the right type of materials will be able to
modify the behavior of the learner suitably making
him a fit person for the society.

23. TEACHING-LEARNING
STRATEGIES
 A strategy plays an important role for
teachers when they teach.
 Strategies need to be according to the
materials and is able to bring effective
learning.
 Different strategies are being evolved
by educational technology.
 Teachers must know these strategies.

24. DEVELOPMENT OF
AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS
 Audio-visual aids play an important role in the teaching-
learning process.
 Software & hardware aids, computers and other
appliances/equipment have to be used in the present type of
teaching-learning process.
 Computer assisted instructions will help the learner as well as
the teacher to achieve the goals of education more conveniently.

25. HELP IN OVERALL
IMPROVEMENT
 Educational technology helps in locating the problems in the
different areas of education.
 it also helps in remedying draw-backs.
 Evaluation of the teaching-learning process is also made
better because through feedback, things are improved throughly
and there is better control over the process of education.
 Educational technology can revolutionize the whole process of
teaching learning.

26. IDENTIFICATION OF NEEDS
OF THE COMMUNITY
 Educational technology identifies the needs of the
community.
 Helps provide 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.
 It tries to improve the community in every possible way

27. AND THAT ENDS MY
SLIDESHOW ABOUT:
ROLES AND
FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY IN THE
21ST CENTURY
EDUCATION