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There are many doubts among teachers about the best way to deal with new technologies in the classroom.
Some adopt as a method the pure and simple prohibition of cell phones in the classroom, for example. And others argue that it is better to leverage these technologies to stimulate student learning.
I've known strange cases, in which the principals get a brand new computer lab, but it ends up not being used, because they are afraid that the students will ruin the equipment. This is a problem. And the worst thing is that it is understandable, from the perspective of a manager who knows how difficult it is to obtain and repair this equipment. But it's complicated when the school has the equipment, but the students can't use it, or use it in a very restricted, very unproductive way.
But there are many misconceptions regarding the use of technologies in school. There are many speeches that celebrate the purchase of equipment in itself, but we have to criticize that.
Prohibit or encourage?
There are times when disciplining focus and strengthening concentration is the most important thing to do. So, in that sense, sometimes it's worth disconnecting from that excess Internet distractions to concentrate. The Internet is great, but we cannot disregard the fact that what most children and young people are doing is not creative use of the Internet, but pure procrastination. And there are already a lot of people suffering from it.
On the other hand, the Internet has to be present at school, but in a critical way. The school cannot simply repeat what students already know or deliver something ready for them. Put students to play educational games or do research on Google. The school has to overcome the students. Or get them to outdo themselves when it comes to using the Internet.
Students have to learn to discern a reliable source of information in the midst of so much false information that circulates on the Internet, they have to learn to interpret messages on social networks according to the source, they have to know that everything they do on the Internet is registered, that he is being followed at every click, that companies keep this information and ends up knowing us better than our best friends.
That our browsing history conditions what appears to us in searches and on social networks. They have to learn to protect themselves so as not to be bullied or harassed. So, it goes from text interpretation to an ethical, political and even philosophical discussion of the Internet.
One of the great challenges that schools have in relation to new technologies is to make students not only users, but producers of technology.
They have to learn to transform what they have at hand and not be satisfied with the role of passive consumers of applications made by other people, and generally made to stimulate consumption. Technology is a language and students need to learn the codes of that language. Young people cannot be hostages of a language they do not master.
There is a great international movement in education understanding that, already today, more intensely in the near future, those who do not know programming principles will be considered illiterate. There's even a term for it: "illiterate".
Sixty years ago, computers occupied an entire floor of a building. Today they fit in our pocket. Our smartphone is more powerful than the computer that managed man's trip to the moon in 1969.
The trend is that in the near future computers will be smaller than a cell. And they will be everywhere. There is already a term for it: Internet of all things, which is already in full development, and the principle of singularity, elaborated by Ray Kurzweil, which is based on this exponential logic of technological advancement.
So, if today's young people don't know the basic principles of that language or those codes that will program computers, they already manage our whole life and will be literally incorporated into us, this shows that their education has completely failed. .
It's not that students have to do a reinforcement in computer classes. But the technologies have to be present in the daily life of the disciplines.
If we learn the alphabet to learn to write and create from language, the same thing must happen with technology. The meaning of learning the technological language is to use this language to create.
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23 сен 2015
