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A key change at iCommons
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Dear friends,
At the 2 August iCommons Board Meeting, the board decided to make some difficult but necessary changes at iCommons. It has become clear over the past months that our vision for iCommons is different from the... more
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The Future of Education
sergiobranco (Brazil) · Jun 16th, 2007 11:16 pm · 30 votes · no comments made
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Some months ago, it was published a journalistic paper in Brazil discussing the use of blogs in schools. One of the conclusions the teachers reached was that students thought it was extremely boring to write any kind of composition that would be read only by teachers. The students wanted visibility, wanted publicity, wanted to be read by their peers. For this reason, the teachers in certain school decided to create a blog where students could post their production.
Of course, this is a first step in the long journey that take us to the “future of open education” , name of the panel that opened the second day of the iSummit and was composed of Jimmy Wales, James Boyle, Mark Surman, SJ Klein, Cory Ondrejka and Ronaldo Lemos (Chairman).
The rich discussion was mainly related to the possibility of using computers and the internet in the development of education. Jimmy Wales pointed out examples of obstacles that must be overcome in this way to the future. Some of such obstacles are structural hardware problems (like lack of enough computers at most schools, especially in developing countries) and educational method problems. As an example, it was mentioned, during the panel, that the first time a child, who can properly use the internet, has a piece of information denied is when he or she goes to school.
Still about teaching methods, the internet has a vast number of possibilities not yet fully used. Videogames and parallel lives games (whose best example is Second Life) may improve interaction among students and provide teachers with new teaching tools. Another important digital inclusion method is the use of LAN houses as culture points and a place to have access to internet and to attend to courses.
A definitive and endless mission for the future of school and education is to include the openness of information and internet in the future teaching methods.
tags: rio-de-janeiro brazil education teaching
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