Sunday, June 28, 2009

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What good technology if the way we teach is not updated?

While information technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, the school seems to be several steps back. It is useless to incorporate new technologies in school, if the form of teaching does not change according to the new needs of students and society.
The problem is not new, and since the beginning of the century has been raising the need for the discipline of computer science or ICT, is an area where they learn to solve problems in each of the academic disciplines and skills and abilities to encourage demand society. Be aware that the Computer is not half over, but a resource indispensable students must be handled with skill to apply it in their activities.

Already a site created in 2002 it was on "Computer Education of the Third Millennium" saying that "Mankind is in an era of Information and Knowledge ..." ( http://www.informaticaeducativa.com/ ).
On that site is to analyze the target to be followed by the Computer Education to change the way it is taught in schools Informatics. Here you can see a video critical (in Portuguese) on the use that is usually given to new technologies when they come to school.

There we see this contradiction: A school can have the best technology available, but if the method or manner of teaching does not change or teacher is not updated, the learning of students will remain limited and disjointed society , and the computer at school will be just another means of continuing behavioral teaching methodologies.
In this video we can see that raises questions about where the problem in the relationship between teacher and Informatics, between school and student and between school and society. First question is what is failing the "Technology or Methodology?" then asks "What good is technology if the method (in the form of traditionalist teaching) remains?", and finally to see that the result is the same question, "Where's the new school?". Obviously there are many teachers
traditionalists as shown in the video that are resistant to change and prevailing behaviorism and teaching-learning technique. And this form of teaching is applied by teachers and ICT.
Therefore, specialists in computer education, touted the need for the Computer part of the curricula of all disciplines that exist in schools, implementing activities that lead students to use computing resources to solve problems that arise each matter to be enrolled, and thus have this resource as a means of creating learning specific skills in students. Citing

Dr. Jesús Martín Barbero :

Martin Barbero, researcher and specialist in Communication Theory in his book Urban Dynamics culture and school culture says that we must reduce the gap between society where the other student and school. Two areas seem unrelated isolates. The student must enter the classroom "with body and soul", that means that teachers must take into account all their concerns and issues unique to the student. And in this aspect, the Computer has the most interesting tool to connect students with the school and the society they live.
School is no longer omnipotent knowledge center. Today there are thousands of ways to get the information we need. Then we teach the student how to select information, create in them skills and skills in the use and application of computer resources to solve specific problems and to bring it in the workplace.
In this respect, the school must also know how to articulate the student with the world of work. Although very cut at specific sites, currently the world of work is leaving to have a prevalence of work-manual to become more cerebral activity. Skill is valued know-how, that is, technological knowledge is the main requirement for employment. And therefore, Information from the school, you should try to articulate those needs of the student with the new demands of society, setting the base beyond the school, to their career goals. In this way also contributes to reducing the gap that now exists between the Company and School.

Below is a video that is a report made to Dr. Jesús Martín Barbero in Brazil after attending an international conference held in that country.

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