The document discusses the roles and functions of educational technology in 21st century education. It advocates for student-centered, collaborative learning with real-world context. Teachers will facilitate learning while students apply skills through interaction, sharing content, and solving problems. Educational technology aims to analyze and improve the teaching-learning process, enhance education goals, develop curricula and materials suited for today's students, and help teachers and identify community needs.

1. ROLES AND FUNCTION OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
IN 21st CENTURY EDUCATION

2. WHAT WOULD BE OUR SCHOOL
AND CLASSROOM LOOK LIKE IN
THE 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION?

3. INSTRUCTION SHOULD BE STUDENT
CENTERED
• Teacher will be the facilitator of the
students learning
• Education is no longer about listening to
teacher talk and absorbing the
information.
• Students will apply their learning's in the
actual or real life situation.

4. EDUCATION SHOULD BE
COLLABORATIVE
• Students must know
how to collaborate with
others
• Students should
encourage to work
together to discover
new information

5. LEARNING SHOULD HAVE CONTEXT
• Teacher will help the
students to understand
how skills they are
building can be applied
in their lives.

6. • Technology allows
for 24/7 access to
information
• Constant social
interaction, and
• Easily created and
shared digital
content.

8. USE TECHNOLOGY COMPREHENSIVELY
TO DEVELOP PROFICIENCY IN 21ST
CENTURY
• Academic learning's are not just enough for
students to be prepared in these competitive
world.
• Students must increase the value to
communicate, analyze, collaborate, create,
innovate and solve problems.

9. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

10. • Technology helps to
find out the different
variables of teaching,
their interlink, effects
upon each other,
relationship, theories of
teaching, phases of
teaching principles of
teaching that can help
us to improve our
teaching process.

11. ANALYSIS OF THE TEACHING-
LEARNING PROCESS
• Educational technology
aims at analyzing the
process of teaching
learning process
thoroughly.

12. IMPROVEMENT OF LEARNING
• Better understand how
learning’s can be
effectively absorb by
students.
• It takes the help of
various empirically
established
generalizations from
psychology, sociology,
physical sciences, etc.

13. ENHANCING GOALS OF EDUCATION
• Every now and then the
goals of education is
rapidly changing.
Technology helps to find
the right objectives in
the light of the changed
circumstances and
changed environment.

14. TRAINING TO TEACHERS
• Teachers need proper
training in order to
cater the different
needs of students.

15. DEVELOPMENT OF CURRICULUM
• Curriculum is the total
teaching-learning
environment, in which
technology could help it
develop.
• Finding the right type of
curriculum that is suited
for the 21st students.

16. DEVELOPMENT OF TEACHING-
LEARNING MATERIALS
• The right type of
materials will be able to
modify the behaviour of
the learning suitably
making him a fit person
to the society.

17. TEACHING-LEARNING STRATEGIES
• Strategy plays an
important role in the
hand of a teacher in
every teaching-learning
situation.

18. DEVELOPMENT OF AUDIO-VISUAL
AIDS
• The software aids,
hardware aids, the
computer and other
equipments that can be
used in the present type
of teaching-learning
environment.

19. HELP IN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT
• Educational technology
helps in locating the
problems in different
areas of education and
try to finds its solutions.

20. IDENTIFICATION OF NEEDS OF
COMMUNITY
• Educational technology
identifies the needs of
community.