2. The 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.
Globalization has opened up the world and allowed people
to connect in new and exciting ways. We blend traditions
and create unique belief system that are not taught in any
classroom, but are developed through our life experiences
and passion.
3. Instruction should be student-centered
•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.
Education should collaborative
• Students must learn how to collaborate with others.
Society today has people collaborating across the
globe.
• Students should be encourage to work together to
discover information, piece it together, and
construct meaning.
Learning should have context
•The teacher still provides guidance as to the
skills that need to be acquired. The teacher can
make a point of helping students to
understand how the skills they are building
can be applied in their lives. Lesson have little
purpose if they do not have any impact in a
students life outside of the school.
4. The Role of
Technology in 21st
century Learning
•Technology allows for 24/7 access
to information.
•Constant social interaction, and
• Easily created and shared digital
content
5. Integrate technology as a
fundamental block into education in
three broad areas
Use technology comprehensivelyto
develop proficiency in 21st century skills
Use technology comprehensivelyto
support innovative teachingand learning
Use technology comprehensivelyto
createrobust education
6. Important functions Of Educational Technology
1. Improvement of teaching Educational technology analysis the process
of teaching thoroughly. It tries to find out the different various of
teaching, there interlinks effects upon each other relationships
theories of teaching phases of teaching principles of teaching,
maxims of teaching 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 is
also concerned with various phases of teaching.
3. Improvement of learning. Educational technology analysis 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 generalization 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 enhancing the right objectives everything in this
universe ids undergoing tremendous changes and with a very fast
speed.
7. 5. Training to teachers. The changed type of environment with new
curriculum and new materials is to be handled by the teachers. Right
type of training to teachers is the need of the hour. Educational
technology can render its valuable help in the training of teachers.
6. Development of Curriculum. Keeping in view of objectives of
education, which have been finalized by education technology
thereafter, or comes the question of developing right type of
curriculum. Only a suitable curriculum appropriately.
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. Only right type of materials will able to modify the
behavior of the learners suitably in making him a fit person of the
society.
8. Teaching learning strategies. A strategy plays an important role in
the hands of teacher in every teaching learning situation. The
different strategies are being evolved by educational technology. The
knowledge of those strategies is a must for every teacher.
8. 9. Development of Audio Visual Aids. Audio visual aids have
always played an important role in teaching learning process.
They need be used according to the times. The software aids,
the hardware aids, the computer and other such appliances.
Have to be used in the present type of teaching learning
environment.
10. Help in Overall Improvements. Educational technology
helps in locating the problems in different areas of education.
Evaluation of the teaching – learning process is also made
better because through feedback, things are improved
thoroughly 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 opportunities to backward people,
disadvantaged students and deprived sections of the society.
Educational technology aims at identifying the needs of the
community from time to time.
