Roles and Functions of Educational Technology 1.Instruction should be Student- centered • Instead of passively receiving information, the students would gather information on their own, under the guidance of their teacher
6. 2. Education should be collaborative Students should learn how to recognize the different strengths and talents each person can bring to a project, and change roles dependingon those attributes.
7. 3. Learning should have context • Student-centered does not mean that the teacher gives up all control of the classroom • Student will be much more motivated to learn something that they can see the value in.
Technology as tools to support knowledge construction
For presenting learners’ ideas, understandings and beliefs
For producing organized, multimedia knowledge bases for learners
Technology as intellectual partner
For helping learners to articulate and represent what they know
For reflecting on what they have learned and how they come to know it
For supporting learners’ internal negotiations and meaning making
For constructing personal representations of meaning for supporting mindful thinking