Roles and Functions of technology in the 21st century education
1. ROLES AND FUNCTION S OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN
21ST CENTURY EDUCATION
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be
Those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn,unlearn,and relearn
Alvin Toffler
2. What is 21st Century Education?
To perform students from globally competitive
To prepare our students, lessons must go beyond the
3’Rs and foster 21st century skills
3. Learning skills :
Critical thinking
- is the intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully
,conceptualizing ,applying ,analyzing , synthesizing ,evaluating information
gathered by observation.
Communicating
- autonomous students, share or exchange information ,new ideas.
- Produce and create something.
Creative thinking
- can be stimulated, students know how to look way on problem and situation.
Collaborating
- can produce and create something.
4. The 21st century skills are a set of abilities that students
need to develop in order to succeed in the formation age
INSTRUCTION SHOULD BE STUDENT CENTER
students would gather information on their
own, under the guidance of the teacher
should apply different learning styles,
enhance motivation and responsibility.
EDUCATION SHOULD BE COLLABORATIVE
Student must learn how to collaborate with
others, students should learn how to
recognize the different strength and
talent.
LEARNING SHOULD HAVE CONTEXT
students know how to adopt situation
and lifelong goal
5. The functions of Technology in 21st century
learning:
Improvement of teaching
Analysis of the teaching learning process
Improvement of learning
6. • Enhancing goal of education
• Training to teacher
• Development of curriculum
7. Development of teaching learning
materials
Teaching learning strategies
Development of Audio-Visual aids
8. Help in over-all improvement
Identification of needs of the
community
9. Roles of Technology in Learning
Technology as tools to
support knowledge
construction
- for representing learners
ideas , understanding
and beliefs
- for producing organize,
multimedia knowledge
basis by learners
10. Technology as
information vehicles
for exploring
knowledge to support
learning by
constructing
-for accessing needed
information
-for comparing
perspective, beliefs and
world views
11. Technology as context to
support learning by
doing
- for representing
and simulating meaningful
real world problem,
situation and context
- for representing
beliefs, perspective,
arguments and stories of
others
- for defining a safe,
controllable problems
space for student thinking
12. Technology as intellectual
partner (Jonassen 1996) to
support learning – by-
reflecting
- for helping learners to
articulate and represent what the
know
- for reflecting on what they have
learned and how they came to know
it
- for supporting learner internal
negotiations and meaning making
- for constructing personal
representations of meaning
- for supporting mindful thingking