The term 21st century has become the central part of the educational thinking and planning for the future.

Administrators and teachers are actively searching for ways to prepare the students for the future, and the educational system has been evolving faster than ever before.

The impact of technology is to develop proficiency in 21st century skills, support innovative teaching and learning and create robust education support system.

prepare the students to become active, successful, and contributing members of society.

Society has change, we cannot adequately prepare students for the society that will exist today or will exist tomorrow, If we continue to prepare them for the society that existed yesterday.

Important Roles of educational technology

• Instruction Should be Student-Centered

• Education Should be Collaborative

• Learning should have Context

[1.]Instruction should be STUDENT-CENTERED

Known as learner-centered education, broadly encompasses methods of teaching that shift the focus of instruction from the teacher to the student.

Focuses on skills and practices that enable lifelong learning and independent problem-solving.

Theory and practice are based on the constructivist learning theory that emphasizes the learner's critical role in constructing meaning from new information and prior experience.

• Students choose what they will learn, how they will learn, and how they will assess their own learning.

Open-ended problem solving requiring critical and creative thinking

Role-playing and participation in simulated situations

Non-traditional writing assignmentsCollaborative team projectsIndividual, self-paced assignments Community engagement and Service-Learning

assignments

[SCI]-student- centered instruction

"increased motivation to learn, greater retention of knowledge, deeper

understanding, and more positive attitudes toward the subject being taught’’.

[2.] Education should be COLLABORATIVECollaborative learning is an educational

approach to teaching and learning that involves groups of students working together to solve a problem, complete a task, or create a product.

Students should be en courage to work together to discover information, piece it together, and construct meaning.

It should be dynamic and the 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.

[3.] Learning Should have Context Learning facts and knowledge about a content

area topic is an important prerequisite to understanding that topic and then developing expertise.

The context becomes the glue to increase the stickiness, the longevity of long term memory of those facts. This is especially true for abstract concepts. These concepts need something concrete with which to attach.

The students will be much more motivated to learn something that they can see the value in.

Three Fundamental Building Block into EDUCATION

[1.] Use technology Comprehensively to develop Proficiency

In 21st century skills.-people use their knowledge to

COMMUNICATE,COLLABORATE, ANALYZE,CREATE,INNOVATE & SOLVE PROBLEMS.

[2.] Use Technology Comprehensively to Support Innovative TEACHING & LEARNING

-Apply knowledge and skills in meaningful way.

[3.] Use technology Comprehensively to Create Robust Education Support System.

-Transform standards & assessment.

Important function of educational technology

•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 aid•Help in overall Improvement •Identification of Needs of the Community

[1.] Improvement of Teaching

Education technology analyses the process of teaching thoroughly.

Developing the theories of teaching, it helps in improving the quality of education.

The different variable of teaching =their interlinks =effects upon each other =relationship =theories of teaching

[2.] Analysis of Teaching Learning Process

Education technology aims at analyzing the process of teaching learning thoroughly

Find out the different variables of teaching their interlinks effects upon each other and relationship.

Establish better relationship between teaching and learning.

[3.] Improvement of learning

Analyses the process of learning and its related theories.

Facilitate more and more learning in less time.

Help various empirically established generalization from psychology, sociology, physical science, and engineering.

[4.] Enhancing Goals of EducationThe objectives of education are being

revived and revised by the passage of time.

Everything undergoing tremendous changes and with a very fast speed.

Technology helps enhancing the right objectives in the light of the changed circumstances and environment.

[5.] Training to Teachers

The change type of environment with new curriculum and new materials is to be handled by the teacher.

Right type of the training to the teachers is the need of the hour.

[6.] Development of CurriculumView the objectives of education in

developing right type of curriculum.

Curriculum is the total teaching learning environment.

Developing a suitable curriculum appropriately.

[7.] Development of Teaching Learning Process.

One of the most important in teaching learning process.

Have to be accordance with the environment of the learners.

Everything in the society including values of life needs to be reflective of the materials

[8.] Teaching Learning Strategies

Strategy has to be right one, which should be according to the materials and the effectiveness on it.

Different strategies are being evolved through technology.

[9.]Development of Audio-Visual AidPlayed an important role in the teaching

learning process.Used according to the times.Software, hardware, computer, other

appliances and equipment.Computer assisted instruction will help

the learners to develop their skills.

[10.] Help in Overall Improvements

Helps in locating the problems in the different areas of education.

Evaluation of the teaching learning process do made better through feedback of the people.

Revolutionalize the whole process of the teaching learning.

[11.] Identification of Needs of the CommunityEducational technology identifies the

needs of the community.

Providing equal education opportunities in every people.

Aims at identifying the needs of the community from time to time.