Topic > The Role of Technology in 21st Century Education

Technology has an advantage for teachers, helping them organize and stay up to date with information about students, progress, and learning strategies. Technology can open teachers' eyes to what strategies help students better understand lessons, rather than the one-size-fits-all approach, and gives them insight into what works and what doesn't, since children don't they are all the same. This plays a huge role in diversity, as as teachers we need to provide everything we can to students who have different ethnic backgrounds or learning difficulties. For 21st century teachers, roles have changed dramatically: teachers are facilitators of learning rather than providers of knowledge. Teachers help engage, discuss, investigate, and question students about their learning; it is more student-centered. The teacher is the student's prompter, resource, evaluator, organizer, participant, and tutor to help enhance learning and influence practice and production. The educational technology standards for students and the skills required in the 21st century are: creativity and innovation, communication and collaboration, research and information fluency, critical thinking, problem solving, digital citizenship and technology operations. As for the educational aspect