This document discusses the roles and functions of educational technology in the 21st century. It states that the goal of 21st century education is to prepare students to succeed in a competitive global world. It emphasizes that instruction should be student-centered, collaborative, and provide real-world context. Technology allows for ubiquitous access to information, constant interaction, and easily created digital content, enabling more engaging and personalized learning. Educational technology aims to improve teaching and learning, enhance educational goals, train teachers, develop curriculum and materials, and help identify community needs. Its functions include analyzing the teaching-learning process, facilitating learning, and helping with overall educational improvement.

1. Lesson 2 Roles and Functions of
Educational Technology in the
21st Century

2. DISCUSSION:
The term "21st century" has become the central part of
educational thinking and planning for the future.
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 education 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 limited
options for everyone else. Globalization has opened up
the world and allowed people to connect in new and
exciting ways. We blend traditions and create unique
belief systems that are not taught in any classroom, but
are developed through our life experiences and
passions.

3. 1. Instruction should be student-centered
-While student-centered learning is strongly
encouraged in the 21st century, this does not mean that
the teacher can never give a lecture again. Education is
no longer about listening to the 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 recieving 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 the memorization of facts.

4. 2. Education should be collaborative
- Students must learn how to collaborate with others.
society today has people collaborating across the globe.
How can students be expected to work with people from
other cultures, with different values from their own, if
they are not able to work with the people they see each
day in their classroom? 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 strenghts and talents each person
can bring to a project, and change roles depending on
those attributes.

5. The role 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.
- In this setting, educators can leverage technology
to create an engaging and personalized environment to
meet the emerging educational needs of our current
generation. No longer does learning have to be one-size-
fits-all or confined to the classroom. Our students are
more inclined to find information by accessing the
Internet through cellphones and computers or chatting
with friends on a social networking site.

6. 3. Learning should have context
- Student-centered does not mean that the teacher
gives up all control of the classroom. While students are
encouraged to learn in different ways, the teacher still
provides guidance as to the skills that need to be
acquired. The teacher can make a point of helping
studentsto understand how the skills they are building
can be applied in their lives.
- Technology is a tool, a way for-based learning and
allows students to do a lot of the research using the
Internet and various tools. And at the same time these
students are learning very valuable research skills, which
they can transplant at high levels of educations, at
universities and beyond.

7. There is call for action to integrate technology as a
fundamental building block into education in three broad
areas.
1. Use Technology comprehensively to develope
profeciency in 21st century skills.
Knowledge of core content is necessary, but no
longer sufficient, for success in a competitive world.
Even if all students mastered core academic subjects,
they still would be woefully underprepared to succeed in
postsecondary institutions and workplaces, which
increasingly value to people who can use their
knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create,
innovate and solve problems.

8. 2. Use technology comprehensively to support
innovative teaching and learning.
To keep pace with a changing world, schools need
to offer more rigorous, relevant and engaging
opportunities for students to learn- and to apply their
knowledge and skills in meaningful ways.
3. Use technology comprehensively to create robust
education support systems.
To be effective in schools and classrooms, teachers
and administrators need training, tools and proficiency in
21st century skills themselves. Used comprehensively,
technology transforms standards and assesments,
curriculum and instruction, professional development,
learning environments, and administration.

9. Important Functions of Educational Technology
1. Improvement of Teaching
Educational Technology analyses the process of teaching
thoroughly. It tries to find out the different variables or 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
Educational Technology aims at analyzing the process of
teaching-learning thoroughly. It tries to find out the different
variables of teaching their interlinks effects upon each other,
relationship etc.

10. 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. It takes the help of various empirically established
generalizations from psychology, sociology, physical sciences,
engineering etc.
4. Enhancing Goals of Education
The objectives of education are being reviewed and revised
with the passage of time. Educational technology helps in finding
out the right objectives. Everything in this universe is undergoing
tremendous changes and with a very fast speed.
5. Training to Teachers
The changed type of environment with new curriculum and
new materials is to be handled by teachers. Right type of training
to the teachers is the need of the hour. Educational Technology
can render its valuable help in the training of teachers also.

11. 6. Development of Curriculum
Keeping in view the objectives of education, which have been
finalize by education technology thereafter, comes the question of
developing right type of curriculum. Curriculum is the total teaching-
learning environment, which has to be modified and remodeled in
the light of latest thoughts.
7. Development of Teaching-Learning Materials
Teaching- learning materials are also as important as anything
else in the teaching learning process. They have to be in
accordance with the environment of the learners. In this age of
science and technology, materials of teaching cannot be
unscientific.
8. Teaching-Learning Strategies:
A strategy plays an important role in the hands of a teacher in
every teaching-learning situation. The strategy has to be the right
one, which should be according to the materials and is able to bring
about effective teaching learning.

12. 9. Development of Audio-Visual Aids:
Audio-Visual aids have always played an important role in the
teaching-learning process. They need to be used according to the
times. The software aids, the hardware aids, the computer and other
such appliances, equipment etc.
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. Evaluation of the teaching-learning process is also made
better because through feedback, things are improved and there is
better control over the process of education.
11. Identification of Needs of The Community:
Educational Technology identifies the needs of the community.
It helps in providing equal education oppportunities 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.

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