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2. SPECIFIC LEARNING
OBJECTIVE:
1. Identify the Roles and Functions of Educational
Technology in the 21st Century Education;
2. Understand the integration of technology as the
fundamental building block of education; and
3. Evaluate the school and classroom if they play the
role in 21st Century Education

3. INTRODUCTION:
 The term “21st Century” has become the central part
of Educational thinking and planning for the future.
 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.

4. We blend traditions and create unique belief systems
that are not thought in any classrooms but are developed
through our life experiences and passions.
The role of education is to prepare students to
become active, successful, and contributing members
of society.
Maximize the impact of technology to develop
proficiency in 21st century skills, support
innovative teaching and learning, and create robust
education support system.

5. In order to prepare students to play their role
in 21st Century society we are part of, the
following can be considered when deciding
how education will look in our schools and
classrooms.
Instruction should be student-centered
Education should be Collaborative
Learning should have context

6. Instruction should
be student-centered
Student-centered learning is strongly
encourage in the 21st century, this does not
mean that the teacher can never give a lecture
again.
Students will need to be able to acquire new
information as problems arise. Then, they will
need to connect the new information with the
knowledge they already have and apply it to
solving the problem at hand.

7. They will need to have ‘learned how to learn’
and in this classroom model, the teacher would
act as a facilitator for the students.
The student will gather information on their
own under the guidance of their teacher.
 Students have an enhanced sense of
motivation and responsibility.
They engage in many different types of
hands-on activities, as well as demonstrate
learning in many different ways.

8. Education should be
Collaborative
Students must learn how to collaborative with
others.
Students should be encourage to work together to
discover information, piece it together, and construct
meaning.
Collaborative should also be dynamic

9. 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.
Schools should be collaborating with other
educational institutes around the world to share
information and learn about different practices or
methods that have been develop.

10. Learning should have
context
o Students are engaged to learn in different
ways, the teacher will provides guidance as to
the skills that need to be acquired.
o The teacher can make a point of helping
students to understand how the skills they
are building can be applied in their lives.

11. o Students will be able much more motivated
to learn something that they can see the
value.
o Since we are no longer preparing students
for specific tasks and roles, we need to
take a more general approach and teach
them the skills that are useful in any
situation.

12. The Roles 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

13. Educators can leverage
technology to create an
engaging and personalized
environment to meet the
emerging educational needs of
our current generation. It is
important for our students to
learn in a global classroom,
acknowledge that the
classroom extends beyond the
physical walls.

14. Our students are more inclined to find
information by accessing the internet through
cellphones and computers. It is necessary to
embrace this highly motivational interest and
embed it in our teaching. As digital capacity
expands and our training in technology use
grows, teachers will begin to utilize technology
to better meet the needs and interest of
students through technology application and
instruction.

15. There is a call for action to integrate
technology as a fundamental building block
into education in three broad areas:
 Use technology comprehensively to develop
proficiency in 21st century skills.
 Use technology comprehensively to support
innovative teaching and learning.
 Use technology comprehensively to create
robust education support systems.

16. Important Functions of
Educational Technology
1. Improvement of teaching
2. Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
3. Improvement of learning
4. Enhancing Goals of Education
5. Training to teachers
6. Development of the Curriculum
7. Development of Teaching
8. Teaching-learning Strategies
9. Development of Audio-Visual Aids
10. Help in Overall improvement
11. Identification of the needs of the
Community

17. THANK YOU!!
BY: DONITA FAYE
COCOY