Role of Educational Technology in the 21st Century
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The document discusses the role of educational technology in improving education by enhancing instruction and engaging learners through various methods and tools. It emphasizes the shift of teachers from traditional instructors to facilitators of knowledge, presenting technology as a means to encourage critical thinking, collaboration, and self-directed learning. Proper implementation of technology in classrooms promotes a learner-centered environment and improves overall educational outcomes.
Role of Educational Technology in the 21st Century
- 1. Role of Educational Technologyin the 21stCentury JaypeeBorja, RN
- 2. What could you say?
- 3. What is Educational Technology?
- 4. It is the use of technology to improve education. It is a systematic, iterative process for designing instruction or training used to improve performance. It is sometimes also known as instructional technology or learning technology
- 5. Educational Technology, consist of designs and environments that engage learner and reliable technique or method for engaging learning such as cognitive learning strategies and critical thinking skills.
- 6. Technology It is also the application of science (the combination of scientific method and materials) to meet an objective to solve a problem Is a body of knowledge used to create tools, develop skills and extract materials
- 7. Educational Technology in the 21stcentury
- 8. Teachers in this new environment will become less as instructors and more as orchestrators of information, giving the students the ability to turn knowledge into wisdom.
- 9. Teachers and administrators need to cultivate and maintain the student’s interest in the material by showing how this knowledge applies in the real world.
- 10. The Traditional Classroom Ancient Greece Spanish Era Common Classroom
- 11. TRADITIONAL Delivery vehicles for instructional lessons Technology serves as a teacher.
- 12. CONSTRUCTIVIST Partners in the learning process Technology is a learning tool to learn with, not from.
- 13. From a constructivist perspective, the following are the roles of technology in learning: (Jonassen, et al 1990)
- 14. Technology can play a traditional role, i.e. as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons or in a constructivist way as partners in the learning process.
- 15. Whether used from the traditional or constructivist point of view, when used effectively, it “increases students’ learning, understanding, and achievement but also augments, motivation to learn, encourages collaborative learning and supports the development of critical thinking and problem- solving skills” (Shacterand Fagnano, 1999)
- 16. It allows the teacher to utilize many resources that can make teaching more efficient and effective
- 17. It also provide assistance in creation, administration and implementation of the following: Visual Aids Recording and Computing Grades Communication Opportunity for Distance Education
- 18. Visuals Computer software help better presentation of information.
- 19. Recording and Computing Grades Computer hard drives and storage devices are an excellent way to store data.
- 20. Information Access There many websites that are useful for education. The internet is vast source of knowledge that the teacher and students could utilize. Computers enable access to the Internet which has information on literally everything. Technology as intellectual partner
- 21. Communication Technology as a social medium to support learning by conversing
- 22. Technology as tools to support knowledge construction Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning- by-constructing: Technology as context to support learning by doing
- 23. Proper implementation of technology in the classroom gives students more “control of their own learning and tends to move classrooms from teacher-dominated environments to ones that are more learner-centered (Russeland Sorge, 1999)
- 39. Thank you for listening!