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Roles and Functions of Educational Technology in 21st Century EducationEducational Technology 1:30 - 2:30 PM (M-F) Apilar, Sheree Mae F.

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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.

Globalization has opened up the world and allowed people to connect in new and exciting ways. As always, at its core, the role of education is to prepare students to become active, successful, and contributing members of society.

In order to prepare students to play their role in the 21st century society we are a part of, the following can be considered when deciding how education will look in our schools and classrooms.

INSTRUCTION should be STUDENT-CENTERED

Education is no longer about listening to the teacher talk. Students will need to acquire new information as problems arise. Then, they will need to connect the new information with the knowledge they already have and apply it to solving the problem at hand.

EDUCATION should be COLLABORATIVE

Students should be encouraged to work together to discover information, piece it together, and construct meaning. Students should learn how to recognize the different strengths and talents each person can bring to a project, and change roles depending on those attributes. Collaboration should also be dynamic.

LEARNING should have CONTEXT

Teacher doesnt gives up all control of the classroom. The teacher can make a point of helping students to understand how the skills they are building can be applied in their lives. Learning something that we can see the value!

The Role of Technology in 21st Century Learning

Technology allows for 24/7 access to InformationEasily Created and Shared Digital ContentConstant Social Interaction

Important Functions of Educational Technology

Improvement of Teaching

Educational technology tries to find out the different variables of teaching, their interlinks, effects upon each other, relationships, theories of teaching, phases of teaching principles, maxims of teaching that improves the quality of education.

Analysis of the Teaching-Learning ProcessFind out different variables of teaching concerned with various phases of teaching

Improvement of LearningEducational Technology analyses the process of learning and the related theories. It facilitates more and more of learning in less time.

Enhancing Goals of EducationFinding out the right objectives. Educational technology helps in enhancing the right objectives in the light of the changed circumstance and changed environment.

Training for TeachersRender its help in training teachers new curriculum and new materials is to be handled by teachers.

Development of CurriculumSuitable type of curriculum will help in the attainment of goals. Keeping in view the objectives of education!

Development of Teaching-Learning MaterialsRight type of materials will able to modify the learners behavior! Learning Materials Are Important

Teaching-Learning StrategiesStrategy Plays an Important Role. The strategy has to be the right one, which should be according to the materials and is able to bring about effective teaching- learning process.

Development of Audio-Visual AidsSoftware aids , hardware aids, computer and other such appliances have to be used in the present type of teaching-learning process.

Help in Overall ImprovementEvaluation of the teaching-learning process is also made better becausethrough feedback, things are improve thoroughly and there is bettercontrol over the process of education.

Identification of Needs of the CommunityEducational Technology identifies the needs of the community. It provides equal educationopportunities to backward people, disadvantaged students and deprived sections of the society.It aims at identifying the needs of the community from time to time. It tries to improve thecommunity in every possible way.