ROLES AND FUCTIONS

A growing number of business leaders, politicians,

and educators are united around the idea

that students need "21st century skills" to

be successful today. The creation of a 21st

century education system is making sure that all students are prepared to face the competitive world and fast-

changing societies, to become active and contributing members of society.

In order to prepare students to play

their role in the 21st century society,

the following can be considered when

deciding how education will look in our

schools and classrooms.

INSTRUCTION SHOULD BE

STUDENT-CENTERED

Students will need to be able to acquire new information

as problems arise, then connect the new information with

the knowledge they already have and apply it to solving

the problem at had.

Students “learned how to learn” on their own, encouraging

new learning styles and enhance their sense of motivation

and responsibility.

The teacher would act as a facilitator for the students.

EDUCATION SHOULD BE

COLLABORATIVE

Students should be encouraged to work together to

discover information, piece it together and construct

meaning and collaboration should be dynamic.

Schools should also be collaborating with other

educational institutions around the world to share

information and learn about different methods that have

been developed.

LEARNING SHOULD HAVE CONTEXT

Students are encouraged to learn in different ways, the

teacher still provides guidance as to the skills that need to

acquired, and find the value of learning something.

Lessons must have any impact in a student’s life outside

of the school and technology is a tool that allows students

to develop valuable research skills, which they can

transplant at high levels of education.

THE ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN 21ST CENTURY

LEARNING:

A. TECHNOLOGY ALLOWS FOR 24/7 ACCESS TO

INFORMATION.

B. CONSTANT SOCIAL INTERACTION; AND

C. EASILY CREATED AND SHARED DIGITAL

CONTENT.

TECHNOLOGY AS A FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING

BLOCK

USE TECHNOLOGY COMPREHENSIVELY TO

DEVELOP PROFICIENCY IN 21ST CENTURY SKILLS.

Knowledge of core content should be used comprehensively

to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate and

solve problems and where technology helps students

develop 21st century skills.

TECHNOLOGY AS A FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING

BLOCK

USE TECHNOLGY COMPREHENSIVELY TO

SUPPORT INNOVATIVE TEACHING AND

LEARNING.

Schools need to offer more rigorous, relevant and engaging

opportunities for students to learn and to apply their

knowledge and skills in meaningful ways and where

technology supports new, research-based approaches in

teaching and learning.

TECHNOLOGY AS A FUNDAMENTAL BUILDING

BLOCK

USE TECHNOLOGY COMPREHENSIVELY TO

CREATE ROBUST EDUCATION SUPPORT SYSTEMS.

Teachers and administrators need training, tools and

proficiency in 21st century skills to be effective in schools

and classrooms and where technology transforms

standards & assessment, curriculum & instruction,

professional development, learning environments, and

administration.

Important functions of educational technology

IMPROVEMENT OF

TEACHING

By developing the theories of teaching, finding

out the different variables of teaching, their

interlinks, effects upon each other and etc.,

Educational Technology analyses the process of

teaching thoroughly and helps in improving the

quality of education.

ANALYSIS OF THE

TEACHING-LEARNING

PROCESS

To establish better relationship between teaching

and learning, Educational Technology aims at

analyzing the process of teaching-learning

thoroughly and evaluating the principles of

teaching and maxims of teaching.

IMPROVEMENT OF

LEARNING

To facilitate more and more of learning in less

time, Educational Technology analyses the

process of learning and the related theories and

takes the help of various empirically established

generalizations from different fields of

educational courses.

ENCHANCING GOALS OF

EDUCATION

Educational Technology helps in finding out the

right objectives and in the enhancement of right

objectives in the light of the changed

circumstances and changed environment, where

the objectives are being reviewed and revised

time to time.

TRAINING TO TEACHERS

To cope up with the changed type of

environment with new curriculum and new

materials, a right type training is needed for the

teachers who will handle it, and where

Educational Technology can render its valuable

help in the training of teachers also.

DEVELOPMENT OF

CURRICULUM

To come up with a suitable type of curriculum

that will help in the attainment of goals,

Educational Technology can do this job of

developing a suitable curriculum, a total

teaching-learning environment, which is modified

and remodeled in the light of latest thoughts.

DEVELOPMENT OF

TEACHING-LEARNING

MATERIALS

To modify the behavior of the learner suitably

making him a fit person for the society, teaching-

learning materials should be in accordance with

the environment of the learner, where everything

in the society, including the values of life must be

reflected in the materials.

TEACHING-LEARNING

STRATEGIES

For every teacher, the knowledge of strategies is

a must, since strategies plays an important role

in the hands of a teacher in every teaching-

learning situation and has to be the right one,

according to the materials and bring about the

effective teaching learning.

DEVELOPMENT OF AUDIO-

VISUAL AIDS

To achieve the goals of education more

conveniently, Audio Visual aids should be used

according to the times and play an important role

in the teaching-learning process, and where

computer assisted instructions must be use in

the present type of teaching-learning

environment, that will help the learner as well as

the teacher.

HELP IN OVERALL

IMPROVEMENT

Through feedback, evaluation of the teaching-

learning process and things are improved

thoroughly, and there is a better control over the

process of education and where Educational

Technology helps in locating the problems in

different areas of education and revolutionize the

whole process of teaching-learning.

IDENTIFICATION OF NEEDS

OF THE COMMUNITY

To improve the community in every possible way,

Educational Technology identifies the needs of

the community, helps in providing equal

education opportunities to backward people,

disadvantaged students and deprived sections of

the society and aims at identifying the needs of

the community from time to time.

EDUC 2D 10:30-11:30 PM MTWTHF