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
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