Educational Technology

Submitted byChristine A. Mowit

Submitted toMs. Maria Estela Teo-Balbuena

What is Educational Technology?

Educational Technology basically means all the intellectual and operational efforts made during recent years to regroup, arrange and systematize the application of scientific method.

Educational Technology id the development, application and evaluation of systems, techniques and aids to improve the process of human learning.

Roles and Function of Educational Technology in the 21st Century Education

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.

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.•Will need to have ‘learned how to learn’ in their own.•Different styles are encouraged, and students have an enhanced sense of motivation and responsibility.

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.

• School should also be collaborating with other educational institutions around the world to share information and learn about different practices or method s that have been developed.

Learning should have contextStudent centered does not mean

that the teacher gives up all control of the classroom. While students encourage to learn in different ways. 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.

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

Important functions Of

Educational Technology

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.

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.

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,.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.