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Roles and Functions of Educational
Technology in the 21st century
skills
21st Century• The central part of educational technology
thinking and planning for the future.• Making sure that will students are prepared
to succeed in a competitive world with plenty of opportunities for highly skilled individuals and limited options for everyone else.
• Maximizing the impact of technology to develop proficiency in 21st century skills, support innovative teaching and learning and create robust education support systems
• Developed through life experiences and passions
• Transmit values and cultures
The Role of Education
To prepare students to become• Active• Successful• Contributing members of society
In our schools and classroomsInstruction should be:
Student-Centered• In order to contribute to society, 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.• In this classroom model, the teacher would
act as facilitator for the students. Students gather information on their own, under the guidance of their teacher.
Use technology comprehensively to:• Develop proficiency in 21st century
skills• Support innovative teaching and
learning• Create robust education support
system
Education should be:Collaborative
• 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.
• Students should be encouraged to work together to discover information, piece it together, and construct meaning.
Learning should have:Context
• The teacher can make a point of helping students to understand how the skills they are building can be applied in their lives.• Students will be much more
motivated to learn something that they can see the value in.
Important functions of Education
• Improvement of teaching• Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process• Improvement of Learning• Enhancing goals of Education• Training to Teachers
• Development of Curriculum• Development of Teaching-
Learning Materials• Teaching-Learning Strategies• Development of Audio-Visual
Aids• Help in overall Improvement• Identification of needs of the
Community