Clarín, February 10, 2008 , Supplement Education.
paper version: here.
The note on the school blog: here.
devised a VIRTUAL CAMPUS IS A GREAT SUCCESS
The blog, new educational tool
The two branches of the ORT School in Buenos Aires pushed for renewal of its educational philosophy and will cross the threshold in April 2007 the instrument that revolutionized the Internet and teenage life. Ruben A.
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Twitter. Flickr. Podcast. You Tube ... The vocabulary and computer skills of the "digital natives"-a term that some specialists designan a los chicos que ya encontraron celulares o Internet en casa cuando nacieron— ponen en jaque a cualquiera que no esté familiarizado con las tecnologías de la información. A diferencia de sus padres, docentes u otros chicos, estos escolares crecieron en espacios donde hacer varias cosas a la vez y estar conectado con la red de amigos les resultaba algo cotidiano. Una clásica imagen de ellos es verlos chatear, mirar la tele, hablar con los padres y recibir mensajes en el celular, todo a la vez. De ahí que captar su atención y alfabetizarlos con pizarra y tiza resulte una tarea ardua.
Por ello, en las dos sedes de la escuela ORT de Buenos Aires apostaron por renovar su filosofía educativa, y franquearle the door in April 2007, the instrument that revolutionized the Internet and teen life: the blog. And did it big, they devised a virtual campus, http://redblogs.ort.edu.ar/ , consisting of a network of these journals free and easy to handle. They started with 17 blogs, reached in September 90 and reached 120 in February 2008, peaking at 20,000 visitors per day outside the school.
What has this digital web that traps so many Internet? Almost everything. Apart from the areas that maintain or teaching courses related to the project, offers blogs to document travel, write about football or listen to the content passing through the school radio, The Crow. It also provides a channel on YouTube with over 90 videos of their own, a job or access to the medical department. The icing on the cake is that any Internet user can receive alerts through Twitter, an instant messaging channel on the Internet, updates occur.
To understand the success of the project, enough to sail a while this ocean of information. What? For example, adolescents who published the analysis of Pablo Neruda, who wrote to pass the subject of language. Also, Natural science teachers who upload videos in English on respiration. You can even read how some parents appreciate the school that broadcast live over the Internet an activity where their children attended. As explained by Guillermo Lutzky, director of the virtual campus, the bet is to end the exhausting "What did you do today?", And thus students, teachers and parents build a different relationship with the school.
That's possible because this initiative falls on two key areas: publicly document the learning process and increase the audience that has the student for practical work. Thanks to this synergy between technology and teaching, any Internet user can browse the blog of 5IA Image and Communication, example, enter the label "people" and track from the slogan "Put together a site for a town of less than 10 thousand inhabitants" to how SNIEG and Maximiliano González Federico prepared www.chos-malal.4t.com , a website Unofficial dedicated to Chos Malal (Neuquén). Also, if the reader wants and accepts that teachers moderate their comments, you can say. That is: these "digital natives" call a revolution of the traditional system of education. Interaction
. Concurrency. Customization. Sharing Creativity ... Maybe they could translate some of these buzzwords and software that handle so easily these new schools. As explained Lutzky, good chemistry between adolescents and blogs is that "this tool enables them to integrate knowledge and skills to them everyday, and to share the results with others. That makes kids feel they get something of their own, hence so emotionally involved. "
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"TRAIN BOYS FOR CAREERS Not Invented"
Guillermo Lutzky leads a team of 4 persons who coordinates more than 70 teachers in this pioneering experience. This commitment, he says, reflects a conviction: "We train kids for careers that are not yet invented: the tasks and job skills change very quickly. When they work, or clinical filmmakers we are today, they will use other technologies that drive now ... And almost certainly be governed by other working models. They can not learn everything, we must prepare them to know how to adapt to a constantly changing work environment. In this sense, co-produce with teachers through blogs, allows them to gain a leading role in their learning. This presents a challenge for teachers, who must act primarily as conductors. "
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