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• The term “21st century” has become the central

part of educational thinking and planning for

the future.

• Administrators and Teachers are actively

searching for ways to prepare students for the

future, and the educational system has been

evolving faster than ever before.

• Creating a 21st century educational system is

about making sure that all students are

prepared to succeed in a competitive world

• A world with plenty with plenty of

opportunities for highly skilled individuals

and limited options for everyone else.

• Its about maximizing the impact of

technology to develop proficiency in 21st

century skills, support teaching and create

robust education support system.

• However, despite learning about the skills

that students will need to develop to

become successful in the 21st century,

• as well as what beliefs about education

may be worth hanging onto or throwing

away,

• schools and teachers are left trying to

figure out what their role needs to be in

the education of their 21st century

students.

• We transmit our values and cultures

without the expectation of them being

adopted by our audience- just accepted

by them.

• In order to prepare students to play their

role in the 21st century society we are a

part of, the following can be considered

when deciding how education will look in

our schools and classrooms.

While student-centered learning is strongly encouraged in the 21st century,

This does not done not mean that the teacher can never give a lecture again.

In order to contribute to society, students will need to be able to acquire new information as problem arise.

Different learning styles are encouraged, and students have an enhanced sense of motivation and responsibility.

Like demonstrate learning in many different ways.

Students must learn how to collaborate

with others.

Students should encouraged to work

together to discover information, piece it

together, and construct meaning.

Collaboration should be dynamic.

Students should learn how to recognize

the different strengths and talents each

person can bring to a project.

Student centered does not mean that the teacher gives up all control of the classroom.

The teacher can make a point of helping students to understand how the skills they are building can be applied in their lives.

Lessons have little purpose if they do not have any impact in a student’s life outside of the school.

Technology is a tool, a way for fact-

based learning and allows students to do

a lot of the research using the internet and

various tools.

And at the same time these students are

learning very valuable research skills,

which they can transplant at high levels of

education. At universities and beyond.

• 1. Technology allows for 24/7 access to information

• 2. Constant social interaction, and

• 3. Easily created and shared digital content.

If this is the case, it is necessary to embrace this highly

motivational interest and embed it in our teaching.

Teachers will begin to utilize technology to better

meet the needs and interest of students though

technology application and instruction.

• 1. Use technology comprehensively to develop proficiency in 21st century skills.

Even if all students mastered core academic subjects, they still would be woefully underprepared to succeed in postsecondary institutions and work place, which increasingly value people who can use their knowledge to communicate, collaborate, analyze, create, innovate and solve problem.

• 2. Use technology comprehensively to support innovative teaching and learning.

to keep pace with a changing world, schools need to offer more rigorous, relevant and engaging opportunities for students to learn- and to apply their knowledge and skills in meaningful ways.

• 3. Use technology comprehensively

to create robust education support

systems.

To be effective in schools and

classrooms, teachers and

administrators need training, tools and

proficiency in 21st century skills

themselves.

• 1. Improvement of Teaching

It tries to find out the different variables of teaching, their

interlinks effects upon each other, relationships, theories of

teaching, phases of teaching principles of teaching, maxims of

teaching etc.

2. Analysis of the Teaching-Learning

Process

It tries to find out the variables of

teaching their interlinks effects upon

each other, relationship etc.

• 3. Improvement of Learning

It takes the help of various

empirically established

generalizations from psychology,

sociology, physical sciences,

engineering etc.

• 4.Enhancing Goals of Education

• Educational Technology helps in

enhancing the right objectives in

the light of the changed

circumstances and changed

environment.

•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 the teachers is the need of the hour

• Educational Technology can render its valuable help in the

training of teachers also.

• 6. Development of Curriculum

• Curriculum is the total teaching-learning

environment, which has to be modified

and remodeled in he light of latest

thoughts.

• Educational Technology can do this job of

developing 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.

• 8.Teaching-Learning Strategies:

• A strategy plays an important role in the

hands of a teacher in every teaching-

learning situation.

• The strategy has to be the right one, which

should be according to the materials and

is able to bring about effective teaching

learning.

• 9. Development of Audio-Visual Aids:

• Audio-Visual aids have always played an

important role in the teaching-learning

process.

• The software aids, the hardware aids, the

computer and other appliances, equipment

etc., have “to be used in the present type

of teaching-learning environment.

• 10. Help in Overall Improvements:

Educational Technology helps in

locating the problems I different

areas of education.

Thus, educational technology can

revolutionize the whole process of

teaching learning.

• 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 needs of the community

from time to time.

Then it tries to improve the community in every

possible way.