The document discusses the roles and functions of educational technology in 21st century education. It states that educational technology can help improve teaching and learning, enhance education goals, develop curriculum and teaching materials, and identify community needs. Technology allows for 24/7 access to information, constant social interaction, and easily created and shared digital content. Educational technology aims to analyze and improve the teaching-learning process.

1. “The Roles and
Functions of
Educational Technology
in the 21st century
Education”

2.  The term 21st century has become the
central part of educational thinking and
planning for the future.
 Administrators and teachers are actively
searching for ways to prepare students
for the future, and the educational system
has been evolving faster than ever before.
 Creating a 21st century education system
is about making sure that all students are
prepared to succeed in a competitive
world.

3. 1. Instruction should be student-
centered
 Education is no longer about listening to the
teacher talk and absorbing the information. In
order to contribute to society, students will need
to be able to acquired new information as
problems arise.
 Then, they will need to connect new information
with the knowledge they already have and apply
it to solving the problem at hand. They will not
be able to call upon a teacher for answers, so will
need to have “learned how to learn” on their
own.
The following can be considered when deciding how
education will look in our schools and classrooms.

4. 2. Education should be collaborative
 Students must learn how to collaborate with
others. Society today has people collaborating
across the globe.
 Collaboration should also be dynamic. Students
should learn how to organize the different
strengths and talents each person can bring to a
project, and change roles depending on those
attributes.
 They should be willing to alter their instructional
methods in light to new advancements.

5. 3. Learning should have context
 Student-centered does not mean that the teacher
gives up all control of the classroom. While
students are encouraged to learn in different
ways, the teacher still provides guidance as to the
skill that need to be acquired.
 Student will much more motivated to learn
something that they can see the value in. Since we
are no longer preparing students for specific task
and roles, we need to take a more general
approach and teach them the skills that are useful
in any situation.

6. 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.
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.

7. Important functions
of Educational
Technology

8. 1. Improvement of Teaching
Educational Technology
analyzes the processes of
teaching thoroughly.
 By developing the theories of
teaching, it helps in improving
the quality of education.

9. 2.Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process
 Educational Technology aims at
analyzing the process of teaching -
learning and tries to find out the
different variables of teaching their
interlinks effects upon each other,
relationship, etc.

10. 3. Improvement of Learning
It facilitates more and more learning in
less time.
 It takes the help of various empirically
established generalizations from
psychology, sociology, physical sciences,
engineering, etc.

11. 4. Enhancing Goals of
Education
The objectives of education are being
viewed and revised with the passage
of time.
Educational Technology helps in
enhancing the right objectives in the
light of the changed circumstances
and changed environment.

12. 5. Training to Teachers
The changed type of environment with
new curriculum and new materials is to be
handled by the teachers.
Educational Technology can render its
valuable help in the training of teachers.
also.

13. 6. Development of Curriculum
 Only a suitable type of
curriculum will help
in the attainment of
goals.
 Educational
Technology can do
this job of developing
a suitable curriculum
appropriately.
 Curriculum is the
total teaching-
learning environment
which has to be
modified and
remolded in the light
of latest thoughts.

14. 7. Development of Teaching-
Learning Materials
Teaching learning materials are also as
important as anything else in the teaching-
learning process.
 Only right type of materials will able to
modify the behavior of the learner suitably
making him a fit person for the society.

15. 8. Teaching-Learning
Strategies
A strategy plays an important role in the
hands of a teacher in every teaching-
learning situation.
 The different strategies are being evolved
by educational technology.

16. 9. Development of Audio-
Visual Aids
Audio-Visual aids have always played an
important role in the teaching-learning
process.
 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.”

17. 10. Help to Overall Improvement
Educational Technology help in locating the
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
feedback, things are improved thoroughly
and there is better control over the process
of education.

18. 11. Identification of Needs of
the Community
 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.

19. Prepared by:
RONA A.
MONTERDE
BEED-II