2.
Society has changed. The term
“21st century” has become the
central part of educational
thinking and planning for the
future. The Role of Education is
to prepare students to be active,
successful and contributing
members of society.
3.
1. Instruction should be student-centered. In student-
centered learning, the students are encourage to learn on
their own while the teacher act as a facilitator.
2. Education should be collaborative. In collaborative
learning, students are expected to collaborate with
people from other cultures, with different values and to
share information and learn about different practices or
methods that have developed.
3. Learning should have context. In learning, teacher
should help students to understand how the skills they
are building can be applied in their lives.
In order to prepare the students to play their
role in the 21st century society, the following
are considered:
4.
1. Technology allows 24/7 access to
information.
2. Technology allows constant social
interaction.
3. Easily create and share digital content.
The Roles
of Educational Technology in the 21st
Century Education
5.
Learning is about discovery, not the memorization of
facts.
websites like Google, Facebook, twitter and etc. are
popular free social networking sites that connect
students to the learning opportunities here and
around the globe.
Through our new and advanced technology learners
can demonstrate learning in a different and exciting
way by allowing everyone to gather information
from a wide variety of resources.
Technology allows 24/7 access to
information.
6.
Social networking sites use graphics
and text to allow users to share photos
and information about themselves, chat
and play games.
Allows constant social
interaction
7.
1. Encourages contact between students and faculty.
2. Facilitates feedback and promotes an active learning.
3. Develops cooperation among students.
4. High levels of interactivity and engagement.
5. Gives confidence to shy students.
6. Alternative way of learning.
7. Presence for distance/remote students.
8. Connect from anywhere-home, school, mobile.
9. Promotes a more informal and intimate student-educator relationship.
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Here are the benefits of instant messaging
in the classroom:
8.
Students surf the internet for researching and writing
articles. Giving information through e-mail messaging than
writing letters is very usual. Imagine, if only everyone is
online communication can be much easier and faster.
Example: Wikipedia is a free , open content online
encyclopedia created through the collaborative effort of a
community of users known as wikipedians. Anyone
registered on the site can create an article for publication;
registration is not required to edit articles. These files from
wikipedia can be shared by sending them through Instant
Messaging Programs (Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger,
Google, Facebook and AOL Instant Messenger)
Easily create and share
digital content
9.
1. Develop proficiency in 21st century
skills .
2. Support innovative teaching and
learning.
3. Create a robust education support
system.
21st Century Education system is
about maximizing the impact of
technology to:
10.
Aside from mastering the core academic
subjects, students must use technology
comprehensively as a preparation for
succeeding the postsecondary institutions and
future workplaces.
Use technology to develop
proficiency in 21st century skills.
11.
Technology supports new, research-
based approaches and promising
practices in teaching and learning. In
other words, technology supports
innovation.
Use Technology comprehensively to
support innovative teaching and learning.
12.
Technology transforms standards and
assessments, curriculum and instruction,
professional development, learning
environments, and administration.
Use technology comprehensively to create
a robust education support system.
13.
14. Educational Technology analyzes the
process of teaching.
It tries to find 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.
Indeed it helps improve the quality of
education
1. Improvement of
Teaching
15.
Educational technology analyzes the process of
teaching and learning.
It tries to find out the different variables of teaching
their interlinks upon each other, relationship etc.
It establish better relationship between teaching and
learning.
2. Analysis of the
Teaching-Learning Process
17.
Educational Technology helps in
finding out the right objectives and
enhancing it in the light of the
changed circumstances and
environment.
4. Enhancing Goals of
Education
20.
Educational Technology develop teaching
learning materials which will modify the
behavior of the learner suitably making him a
fit person for the society.
7 Development of Teaching-
Learning Materials
21.
Educational Technology develop
strategy which should be according to
the materials and is able to bring about
effective teaching-learning.
8. Development of Teaching-
Learning Strategies
23.
Educational Technology helps in
locating the problems in the
different areas of education.
10. Help in Overall
Improvement
24.
Educational Technology aims at
identifying the needs of the community
from time to time to improve the
community in every possible way.
Identification of Needs of
the Community
25.
“We cannot adequately
prepare students for the
society that exists today
or will exist tomorrow if
we continue to prepare
them for the society that
exist yesterday”.
