quarta-feira, 11 de dezembro de 2013

Technology @ school

Technology: not teachers neither students, we are all learners and creators - By Bárbara Godoy

Bárbara Godoy
High School Student at
Colégio Piracicabano - Brazil
The philosopher Heraclitus said that `Change is the only permanent thing´. This idea is applied to practical daily activities and institutions, like the school. The problem is that usually the ones who have a higher power of decision are afraid of changes, because restructuring is not an easy process; or have interests in the permanence of what is conventional.

The Brazilian educational system, as a reflection of the forces quoted above, remains the same since the last century. Nevertheless, nowadays students cannot be taught as their grandparents. They consist a different generation in another reality and have a different ideology, so they need the educational system to change and feet them.

The school could modify the paradigm of the active teacher and the passive student to start. The youth people need to develop their autonomy, capacity of reflection and critical sense. Whether the students have the potential to create knowledge, why are they being transformed in repeater beings?

In this context, technology could be a great tool, allowing students to learn in different situations and spaces, not only in the classroom, for example. It could also make the exchange of knowledge between teachers and students possible, creating new social roles for students and teachers, in which the first ones could get involved practically with the school contents, be closer to what interests them and interact with the knowledge also produced by them, while the second ones would act like guides, helping the students to learn how to filter and put into practice all the information they receive.

This way the power of the technology as a breaker of the conventions related to the paradigms that take place at school is evidenced. However, it is essential to consider the possibility of the technology to work like an increasing factor of the social inequality. Transforming the educational system consists also in the accessibility of all individuals to school. To finish, it is important to have in mind that technology should work as a supporting tool, not as the main focus of education – this place is reserved to human beings that are not machines.

3 comentários :

  1. It´s so true ! Congratulations Barbara Godoy. It´s so nice to see a young woman like you with such an open mind and always thinking in the collectivity.

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  2. É bom nos sabermos seres questionadores. Alegro-me por vê-la irrequieta e insatisfeita, pois só assim buscamos a mudança.
    Parabéns por você ser quem é.

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