Role of Educational Technologyin the 21st Century

Jaypee Borja, RN

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What is Educational Technology?

It is the use of technology to improve education.

It is a systematic, iterative process for designing instruction or training used to

improve performance.

It is sometimes also known as instructional technology or learning technology

Educational Technology, consist of designs and environments that

engage learner and reliable technique or method for engaging learning such as cognitive learning strategies and

critical thinking skills.

Technology

It is also the application of science (the combination of scientific method and materials) to meet an objective to solve a

problem

Is a body of knowledge used to create tools, develop skills and extract materials

Educational Technology in the 21st century

Teachers in this new environment will become less as instructors and

more as orchestrators of information, giving the students the

ability to turn knowledge into wisdom.

Teachers and administrators need to cultivate and maintain the student’s

interest in the material by showing how this knowledge applies in the real world.

The Traditional Classroom

Ancient Greece

Spanish Era Common Classroom

TRADITIONAL

Delivery vehicles for instructional lessonsTechnology serves as a teacher.

CONSTRUCTIVIST

Partners in the learning processTechnology is a learning tool to learn with, not from.

From a constructivist perspective, the following are

the roles of technology in learning:

(Jonassen, et al 1990)

Technology can play a traditional role, i.e. as delivery vehicles for instructional lessons or in a constructivist way as

partners in the learning process.

Whether used from the traditional or constructivist point of view, when used

effectively, it “increases students’ learning, understanding, and achievement but also

augments, motivation to learn, encourages collaborative learning and supports the

development of critical thinking and problem-solving skills”

(Shacter and Fagnano, 1999)

It allows the teacher to utilize many resources that can make teaching more efficient and

effective

It also provide assistance in creation, administration and implementation of the

following:

Visual Aids Recording and Computing Grades

Communication Opportunity for Distance Education

VisualsComputer software help better presentation of information.

Recording and Computing GradesComputer hard drives and storage devices are an excellent

way to store data.

Information AccessThere many websites that are useful for education. The

internet is vast source of knowledge that the teacher and students could utilize.

Computers enable access to the Internet which has information on literally everything.

Technology as intellectual partner

CommunicationTechnology as a social medium to support learning by conversing

Technology as tools to support knowledge construction

Technology as information vehicles for exploring knowledge to support learning-

by-constructing:

Technology as context to support learning by doing

Proper implementation of technology in the classroom gives students more “control of

their own learning and tends to move classrooms from teacher-dominated

environments to ones that are more learner-centered

(Russel and Sorge, 1999)

Thank you for listening!