I live in Mexico City. Living in the biggest City of the world, surrounded by the latests technology and a 24 hour store, made me thought that it was unquestionable how technology should be part of our youth education. But for my surprise it hadn't been quite the answer of some of the schools I have had the opportunity to be part of. It seems that for some of schools education with technology is like opening the Pandora Box.
Instead of making easier ways for teachers to work with the tool. They insist that technology is so dangerous that it is better to block all the websites first and then after going through the deepest scrutiny of deciding wether the information is suitable or not for the students to work with. Then the website would be able to be opened to the public.
This idea made me thought that perhaps we are not that far from the eighteenth century when people was afraid of Science or perhaps we are even closer to the sixteenth century when people was afraid of knowing more about the Universe because it could condemn you to hell.
For all those Principals who doesn't realize we are living in the XXI Century I want to say: "Be open-minded" the answer is not saying no or blocking the entrance to that door. The answer is to embrace the future and teach your students the goods of the use of the TICS to learn and to apply the learning. Otherwise you are teaching them obsolete ways of working and as soon as students go out from your school they would be way ahead of those who know the meaning of the use of tools like Dropbox, Skype, Facebook, Pinterest and many other tools to work in team and to globalize their knowledge".
As well I would like to say: "Thank you to all those teachers who embrace the use or the TICS and to all the principals who promote courses for this purpose".
Thank you for reading and have an excellent week.
Miss Vicky
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Sunday, May 12, 2013
Why Social Media in Education?
As an English Lab Teacher in a School in Mexico. I had struggle with other teachers to understand the importance of Teaching, mixing the expirience with Social Media Interaction such as using Facebook, Dropbox or a simple Blog to interact with their students and facilitate them better Internet source of information for them to work and do their homeworks.
For arrount 8 months now I have tried to get teacher involve the new School's blog to put their homeworks with videos, images or resourses links. Sadly or Gladly around 3 out of 40 teachers had the innitiative to do so.
www.institutolapaz.blogspot.com
So as a form of getting out my frustration I created this blog to try to convince other teachers that todays education would be so much better in terms of accomplishments if we work with todays tools.
As part of non duties on my job profile, I decided to get involve with the planning of the Model of United Nations at my School, the very secund year I saw how much we struggle to get all the students in the same page with all the information required to proceed with the project. So I decided that a blog would be the best way to get them the information complete and at the same time.
PAZMUN 2012 as we called it was a success due to all the organization team of students that decided to contribute with their information on the blog. I simply got them to learn how to upload the information and then they managed everything step by step.
www.pazmun2012.blogspot.com
The very next year at 2013, they took it for granted so I just had to creat the space and then teach some of the new team members how to upload the information and they began to do it themselves, showing that it was way easier to give away the information. Generations are now getting used to work on this terms since students form primary started to participate in the model, generations are getting the ideas way easier.
However and as part of the educational system I told them that Facebook Groups would be awesome to facilitate questions-answer about the different committies. They said it was a great idea, the only inconviniece here was that not all of them included the teacher in the group, as it was kind of invasive for them. Nevertheless the results were conclusive, communication strategies worked and the success and improvement of the model was massive.
www.pazmun2013.blogspot.com
I hope that this experience will endure some of you to work with the tools. Believe me they are great facilitators, just take them and they will show you how to improve your teaching in levels that you thought impossible.
Thank you for your time.
For arrount 8 months now I have tried to get teacher involve the new School's blog to put their homeworks with videos, images or resourses links. Sadly or Gladly around 3 out of 40 teachers had the innitiative to do so.
So as a form of getting out my frustration I created this blog to try to convince other teachers that todays education would be so much better in terms of accomplishments if we work with todays tools.
As part of non duties on my job profile, I decided to get involve with the planning of the Model of United Nations at my School, the very secund year I saw how much we struggle to get all the students in the same page with all the information required to proceed with the project. So I decided that a blog would be the best way to get them the information complete and at the same time.
PAZMUN 2012 as we called it was a success due to all the organization team of students that decided to contribute with their information on the blog. I simply got them to learn how to upload the information and then they managed everything step by step.
www.pazmun2012.blogspot.com
The very next year at 2013, they took it for granted so I just had to creat the space and then teach some of the new team members how to upload the information and they began to do it themselves, showing that it was way easier to give away the information. Generations are now getting used to work on this terms since students form primary started to participate in the model, generations are getting the ideas way easier.
However and as part of the educational system I told them that Facebook Groups would be awesome to facilitate questions-answer about the different committies. They said it was a great idea, the only inconviniece here was that not all of them included the teacher in the group, as it was kind of invasive for them. Nevertheless the results were conclusive, communication strategies worked and the success and improvement of the model was massive.
I hope that this experience will endure some of you to work with the tools. Believe me they are great facilitators, just take them and they will show you how to improve your teaching in levels that you thought impossible.
Thank you for your time.
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