Roles and functions of educational technology in the 21st century education
- 1. Roles and Functions of Educational Technology in the 21st Century Education
- 2. 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. Schools and teachers are left trying to figure out what their role needs to be in the education of their 21st centurt students. Globalization has opened up the world and allowed people to connect in new exciting ways. Society has changed. We need to prepare our students to play their role in 21st century society we are a part of.
- 3. 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 teacher talk and absorbing the information. They will not be able to call upon a teacher for answers, so will need to have 'learned how to learn' on their own. • Instead of passively receiving information, the students would gather information on their own, under the guidance of their teacher. • They engage in many different types of hands-on activities, as well as demonstrate learning in many different ways. Learning is about discovery, not memorization of facts.
- 4. Education should be collaborative Students should be encouraged 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 fepending on those attributes. Schools should also be collaborating with other educational institutions atound the world to share information and learn about different practices or methods that have been developed
- 5. The Role of Technology in 21st Century Learning 1. Technology allows 24/7 access of information. 2. Constant social interaction, and 3. easily created and shared digital content.
- 6. There is a call for action to integrate technology as a fundamental building block into education in three (3) broad areas: 1. Use technology comprehensively to develop proficiency in 21st century skills. - Even if all students mastered core academic subjects, they still would be woefully underprepared to succeed in postsecondary institutions and workplaces, which increasingly value people who can use their knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create innovate and solve problems. 2. Use technology comprehensively to support innovative teaching and learning. - Technology supports new, research-based approaches and promising practices in teaching learning. - schools need to offer more rigorous, relevant and engaging opportunitiesfor students to learn- and to apply their knowledge and skills in meaningful ways. 3. Use technology comprehensively to create robust education support systems. - Technology transforms standard and assessments, curriculum and instruction, professional development, learning environments, and administration.
- 7. Important functions of Educational Technology 1. Improvement of Teaching - Education Technology analyses the process of teaching thoroughly. It tries to find out the different variables of teaching their interlinks, effects upon each other, relationships, theories of teaching , phases of teaching principles of teaching, maxims of teaching etc. By developing the theories of teaching, it helps in improving the quality of education. 2. Analysis of the Teaching - Learning Process - It tries to establish better relationship between teaching and learning. 3. Improvement Learning - It facilitates more and more of learning in less time. It takes the help of various empirically established generalizations from psychology, sociology, physical sciences, engineering etc. 3. Enhancing Goals of Education - The objectives of education are being revised and revised with the passage of time. Educational Technology helps in enhancing the right objectives in the light of the change circumstances and changed environment.
- 8. 5.Training To Teachers - Right type of training to the teachers is the need of the hour. - Educational Technology can render its valuable help in training of teachers also. 6. Development of Curriculum - Curriculum is the total teaching- learning environment, which has to be modified and remodeled in the light of latest thoughts. - Educational Technology can do this jobof developing a suitable curriculum appropriately. 7. Development of Teaching-Learning Materials - they have to be in accordance with the environment of the learners. - Only right type of materials will able to modify the behavior of the learner suitably making him fit person for the society. 8. Teaching-Learning Strategies - The strategy must be the right one., which would be according to the materials and is able to bring out effective teaching learning. - The knowledge of those strategies is a must for every teacher. 9. Development of Audio- Visual Aids: - The software aids, the computer and other such appliances, equipment etc., have “to be used in the present type of teaching-learning environment. Computer assisted instructions will help the learners as well as the teacher to achieve the goals of education more conveniently.
- 9. 10. Help in Overall Improvement: - Educational Technology helps in locating the problems in the different areas of education. - It also helps in remedying the draw-backs. 11. Identification of Needs of the Community - It helps in providing equal education opportunities to backward people, disadvantage 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.