Educational technology plays three key roles in 21st century education: 1) It allows for student-centered, collaborative learning where students acquire new information, make connections, and apply their knowledge. 2) It provides 24/7 access to information and opportunities for constant social interaction and sharing of digital content. 3) It should be used comprehensively to develop 21st century skills, support innovative teaching and learning, and create robust education support systems.

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

2. Creating 21st century education system is about making sure
that all students are prepared to
succeed in a competitive world.
Globalization has opened
up the world and allowed
people to connect in new
and exciting ways.
Schools and teachers are left
trying to figure out what their role
needs to be in the education of their
21st century students.

3. The ff. can be considered when deciding how education will
look in our schools and classrooms:
Education is no longer about
listening to the teacher and
absorbing the information.
Students will need to be able to
acquire new information.
Connect the new information
with the knowledge they
already have and apply it to
solving the problem at hand.
They engage in many different
types of hands-on activities, as
well as demonstrate learning in
many ways.
Instruction should
be student-centered

4. Education
should be
collaborative
Students must learn how
to collaborate with
others.
Students should be
encourage to work together
to discover information,
piece it together and
construct meaning.
Schools should also be
collaborating with other
institutions to share
information and learn
about different practices
that have been
developed

5. Learning
should
have
context
The teacher will still
provide guidance on how
the skills they are building
can be applied in their
lives.
Students must
acknowledge that the
classroom extends
beyond the walls. 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.

6. Three broad areas to integrate technology as
fundamental building block into education:
Use technology
comprehensively to
develop proficiency in
21st century skills.
Use technology
comprehensively
to support
innovative
teaching and
learning.
Use technology
comprehensively
to create robust
education
support systems.

7. Important Functions of
Educational Technology

8. Improvement of Teaching
-Developing the theories
of teaching , helps in
improving the quality of
education.

9. Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
-It tries to establish better relationship between
teaching and learning.
Improvement of Learning
-It facilitates more and more of learning in
less time.

12. 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.
Development of Audio-Visual Aids
-The software aids, the hardware aids, the
computer and other such appliances,
equipments., have “to be used in the present
type of teaching-learning environment.