The roles of educational technology in the 21 st

THE ROLES OF EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

What is Educational Technology?

Educational Technology, consist of designs and environments that engage learners… and reliable technique or method for engaging learning such as cognitive learning strategies and critical thinking skills.

THE ROLES OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Schools in the 21st century will become nerve centers.

Teachers in this new environment will become fewer instructors and more orchestrators of information, giving children 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.

They must also try to increase student’s curiosity, which will help them become lifelong learners.

They should be flexible with how they teach and give learners the resources to continue learning outside of school.

SKILLS THAT CHILDREN WILL NEED IN ORDER TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

1. Ability to collaborate, work in teams.

2. Critical Thinking Skills

3. Oral presentations skills

4. Ability to use technology

5. Written communications skills

6.Willingness to examine civic and global issues and concepts

7. Ability to conduct research to learn about issues and concepts

8. Chance to learn about new career opportunities

ADVANTAGE OF TECHNOLOGY

Modern technology has solved many problems that people face and play an important role in the development of many countries.

Modern technologies create many kinds of products- computers, cloning technology, and video games etc..

Technology today has made life better and quicker in our modern society, people can’t see themselves without computers, cell phones, voice mail… etc…

The technological progress makes our society more convenient and safe.

Making impossible things possible are similar features of the change which previous people have experienced by social change, like shifting from a hunting society to an agricultural society and establishing a commercial society due to the invention of new tools.

To consider these advantages and change of society, modern technology, which we use today, might be not only a new tool but also the tool, which makes a dramatic change in history. However, the contribution of modern technology to society should not be eliminated and should be distributed evenly.

DISADVANTAGES

There’re many people that can’t see themselves without the new tools of 21st century. That’s because the technology recreates the essence of humanity and encourages us to think of all things in the world as standing by, ready for our consumption. So this definitely affects our perception of the natural world. Nowadays we create technology, but technology also creates us.

1. Technology makes life more complex.

2. Create new diseases and disorders such as obesity, laziness and a loss of personality.

3. People will lose their jobs to machines that will do the work for them.

4. Bad for eye watching if over look for long time.

5. Machines and robots are too complex for most people to us.

Thank You And GOD BLESS!!!