Roles and Functions of Educational

Technology in the 21st century

skills

21st Century• The central part of educational technology

thinking and planning for the future.• Making sure that will students are prepared

to succeed in a competitive world with plenty of opportunities for highly skilled individuals and limited options for everyone else.

• Maximizing the impact of technology to develop proficiency in 21st century skills, support innovative teaching and learning and create robust education support systems

• Developed through life experiences and passions

• Transmit values and cultures

The Role of Education

To prepare students to become• Active• Successful• Contributing members of society

In our schools and classroomsInstruction should be:

Student-Centered• In order to contribute to society, students

will need to be able to acquire new information as problem arise.

They need to connect the new information with the knowledge they already have and apply it to solving the problem at hand.• In this classroom model, the teacher would

act as facilitator for the students. Students gather information on their own, under the guidance of their teacher.

Use technology comprehensively to:• Develop proficiency in 21st century

skills• Support innovative teaching and

learning• Create robust education support

system

Education should be:Collaborative

• 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.

• Students should be encouraged to work together to discover information, piece it together, and construct meaning.

Learning should have:Context

• The teacher can make a point of helping students to understand how the skills they are building can be applied in their lives.• Students will be much more

motivated to learn something that they can see the value in.

Important functions of Education

• Improvement of teaching• Analysis of the Teaching-

Learning Process• Improvement of Learning• Enhancing goals of Education• Training to Teachers

• Development of Curriculum• Development of Teaching-

Learning Materials• Teaching-Learning Strategies• Development of Audio-Visual

Aids• Help in overall Improvement• Identification of needs of the

Community