The document discusses the roles of educational technology in 21st century education. It states that 21st century education should be student-centered, collaborative, and provide context for learning. Technology allows for constant access to information, social interaction, and easily created/shared digital content. Important functions of educational technology include improving teaching and learning, enhancing educational goals, training teachers, developing curriculums and materials, identifying community needs, and providing strategies and aids like audio/visual tools.

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

2. 21st Century Education
• Is a competitive world –a world with plenty of
opportunities for highly skilled individuals and
limited options for everyone else
• The role of education is to prepare students to
become more active, successful and
contributing member of a society

3. In order to prepare students to play their role in the 21st century
society, the ff. can be considered when deciding how education
will look in our schools and classrooms.
 Instruction should be student-centered
Education is no longer about listening to the
teacher talk and absorbing the information.
Instead of passively receiving information, the
students would gather information on their own,
under the guidance of their teacher.

4.  Education should be collaborative
Students should be encouraged to work
together to discover new information, piece it
together, and construct meaning.
Collaboration should be dynamic. Students
should learn how to recognize the different
strengths and talents each person bring to a
project, and change roles depending on those
attributes.

5.  Learning should have context
The teacher make a point of helping students
to understand how the skills they are building can
be applied in their lives. Students will be more
motivated to learn something that they can see
the value in

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

7. Important Functions of
Educational Technology
 Improvement of Teaching
It tries to find out the different variables of
teaching their interlinks, effects upon each other,
relationships, theories in teaching, phases of
teaching principles of teaching, maxims of
teaching and etc.

8.  Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
Educational technology aims at analyzing the
process of teaching-learning thoroughly. It tries
to establish better relationship between teaching
and learning.

9.  Improvement of Learning
It takes the help of various empirically
established generalizations from psychology,
sociology, physical sciences, engineering etc.
 Enhancing Goals of Education
Educational technology helps in enhancing
the right objectives in the light of the changed
circumstances and change in environment.

10.  Training to Teachers
The change 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 need of the hour.
 Development 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.

11.  Development of teaching-Learning Materials
Teaching-learning materials have to be in
accordance with the environment of the learners.
Only right type of materials will be 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.

12.  Development of Audio-Visual Aids
The software aids, the hardware aids, the
computer and other such appliances, equipments
and etc., have to be used in the present type of
teaching-learning environment.
 Help in Overall Improvement
Evaluation of the teaching-learning process is
also made better because the feedback, things
are improved thoroughly and there is better
control over the process of education.

13.  Identification of Needs of the Community
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.

14. Prepared by :
Milky Ann Inot
Educ2D 4:30-5:30