ROLES AND FUNCTIONS OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION

1. Roles and functions
of
Educational Technology
in the
21st century Education

3. 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 educational system is
about making sure that all students are prepared to
succeed in a competitive world-a world with plenty of
opportunities for highly skilled individuals and options
for everyone else.

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

5. 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
acquire new information as problem 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. They will not be able to call upon
a teacher for answers, so will need to have ‘learned
how to learn’ on their own. In this classroom model

6. 2.)Education should be
collaborative
Students must learn how to collaborate with others.
Society today has people collaborating across the
globe. Students should be encourage to work together
to discover information, piece it together, and
construct meaning. Collaboration should also be
dynamic. 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.

7. 3.) Learning should have
context
Technology a tool, a way for fact-based learning and
allows students to do a lot of the research using the
internet and various tools.

8. The roles 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.

9. There is a call for action to integrate
technology as a fundamental building
block into education in three broad
areas:
*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.

10. Important functions of Educational
Technology
1.) Improvement of teaching
it tries to find out the different variables of teaching,
their interlinks, effects upon each other, and the
maxims of teaching are also evaluated by it.

11. 2.) Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process
Educational Technology aims at analyzing the process of
teaching-learning thoroughly. Over all, it tries to
establish better relationship between teaching and
learning.

12. 3.) Improvement of Learning
Educational Technology analyses the process of learning
and the related theories. It facilitates more and more of
learning in less time.

13. 4.) Enhancing Goals of Education
Educational Technology helps in finding right
objectives. Educational technology helps in enhancing
the right objectives in the light of the change
circumstances and changed environment.

14. 5.) Training to Teachers
Educational Technology can render its valuable help in
the training of teachers.

15. 6.) Development of Curriculum
Curriculum is the total teaching-learning environment,
which has to be modified and remolded on the light of
the latest thoughts. Educational Technology can do this
job of developing a suitable curriculum appropriately.

16. 7.) Development of the Teaching-
Learning Materials
In this age of science and technology, the materials of
teaching cannot be unscientific. Only the right type of
materials will able to modify the behavior of the learner
suitably making him a fit person for the society.

17. 8.) Teaching-Learning Strategies
The different strategies are being evolved by educational
technology. The knowledge of those strategies is a must
for every teacher.

18. 9.) Development of Audio-Visual
Aids
Audio-Visual aids have always played an important role
in the teaching-leaning process. Computer assisted
instruction will help the learner as well as the teacher to
achieve the goals of education more conveniently.

19. 10.) Help in Overall improvement
Educational technology helps in locating the problems
in the different areas of education. Educational
Technology can revolutionize the whole process of
teaching learning.

20. 11.) Identification of the needs of
the Community
Educational Technology identifies the needs of the
community. It helps in providing equal education
opportunities to backward people, disadvantages
students and deprived sections of the society.

21. For 21st Century Learning, the 21st Century
classroom is designed with two key concepts in
mind: technology access and student-centered
architecture. Technology access means that each
student should be having their own space to
function with technology; the classroom is
outfitted with a mounted LCD projector, a
document camera and an additional wireless
router

22. The 21st Century Classroom not only
has modern tools, equipment and
content but it includes a teacher
trained to use the tools effectively with
innovative teaching approaches that
integrates the interactivity and
engaging content technology brings to
curriculum.