Educational technology plays several important roles and functions in 21st century education. It aims to make learning student-centered and collaborative, with context provided. It can be used to develop 21st century skills, support innovative teaching and learning, and create robust education systems. Some key functions of educational technology include improving teaching and learning, enhancing educational goals, training teachers, developing curricula and teaching materials, identifying community needs, and enabling overall improvement of the education system.

1. The Roles and Functions of
Educational Technology in the
21st Century
Carmina m. ybanez
10:30-11:30 MTWTTHF

2. The term 21st century has become the central part of educational thinking and
planning for the future. Administrators and Teachers are actively searching ways to
prepare students for the future, and the educational system has evolving faster than
ever before. Creating a 21st century education system is about making sure that all
students prepared to succeed in a competitive world-a world play with plenty of
opportunities for highly skilled individuals and limited options of everyone else.
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Educational Technology Workbook

3. Roles and Functions
 INSTRUCTIONSHOULDBE STUDENTCENTERED
Student-centered learning is strongly encouraged in 21st century, this does mean that the
leader can never give a lecture again. Students will need to be acquire new information as
problem arise.
 EDUCATIONSHOULDBE COLLABORATIVE
Students must learn to collaborate with others. Students should be encourage to work
together to discover information, piece it together and construct meaning. Collaboration
should be dynamic. Student should learn hot to recognize the different strengths and
talents each person, and change roles depending on those attributes.

4.  LEARNINGSHOULDHAVECONTEXT
Students are encourage to learn in different ways, the teacher still provides guidance as to
the skills that need to be acquired. Students will be much more motivated to learn
something that they can see the value in.
USE TECHNOLOGYTO:
 To developproficiency in 21st century
 To support innovate teaching and learning
 To create robust education support system

5. IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY
 IMPROVEMENTOFTEACHING
Educational Technology analyses the process of 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. By developing of
theories teaching, it helps improving the quality of education.
 ANALYSISOFTEACHING-LEARNINGPROCESS
Educational Technology aims to analyzing of teaching-learning thoroughly. It tries
to establish relationship between teaching and learning.

6. • IMPROVEMENTOF LEARNING
Educational Technology analyses the process of learning and the related theories. It
facilitates more and more learning in less time.
• ENHANCINGGOALSOF EDUCATION
Educational Technology helps in finding out the right objectives. Educational
Technology helps in enhancing the right objectives in the light of damaged
circumstances and change environment.
• TRANINGTO TEACHERS
Right type of training to the teachers is need of the hour. Educational Technology can
render its valuable help in the training of the teacher.

7. • DEVELOPINGOF CURRICULUM
Curriculum is total teaching-learning environment, which has to be modified and
remolded in the light of latest thoughts. Educational Technology can do this job of
developing a suitable curriculum appropriately.
• DEVELOPMENTOF TEACHING-LEARNINGMATERIALS
Teaching-Learning Materials are also important as anything else in teaching learning
process. Everything in the society including values of life need to 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.
• TEACHING-LEARNINGSTRATEGIES:
Strategies plays important role in every teaching-learning situation. The strategies has to
be the right one, should be according to the materials and is able to bring about effective
teaching-learning.

8. • DEVELOPMENTOF AUDIO-VISUAL AIDS:
Audio-Visual aids have always played an important role in the 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.
• HELPIN OVERALL IMPROVEMENT:
Educational Technology helps in locating problems in the different areas of education. It
also helps in remedying the draw-backs. Evaluation of the teaching-learning process is
also made better because through the feedback, things are improved thoroughly and there
is better control over the process of the education. Thus, educational technology can
revolutionize the whole process of teaching learning.

9. • IDENTIFICATIONOF NEEDSOF THECOMMUNITY:
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.
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Education Technology Workbook by Ms. Maria Estela Teo-Balbuena